Pierre, We don’t have the power, cooling, or space in our display area to run the 11/780 or the 8650. We don’t have any spare boards for either machine, which would make debugging difficult. It looks like they will remain display pieces.
> On Jul 6, 2025, at 9:05 AM, P Gebhardt via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > Hello Michael, > >> We have an 8650 at the Rhode Island Computer Museum. Unfortunately I don't >> think that there is any home of getting it running again. >> https://www.ricomputermuseum.org/collections-gallery/equipment/dec-vax-8650 >> >> -- >> Michael Thompson >> > > > What are the reasons to believe that there is only little hope for the one at > RICM? > Did you start to work on getting it up and running? > Indeed, if the boards are faulty, then it will be challenging to fix them or > find > replacements, I guess. > > Best regards, > Pierre > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.digitalheritage.de > > > >
