I bought a complete RT system at a machine tool auction for a dollar because no one knew what it was. Small system cabinet maybe three feet or a bit taller. Included an RL01. I have several of the taller cabinets around here. Make decent storage.
The stand for my band saw is the stand for one of those massive LP printers. I also use the cabinet for one of the demountable disks as a roll around cart for the shop. BTW - If anyone needs a set of RT docs I have 'em. Dave On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 12:17 -0400, Mark Wendt (Contractor) wrote: > A stroll down memory lane (NPI...) - Delni's DECNet, Multinet, > Frisbee with disk platters... > > Mark > > At 01:03 PM 3/26/2010, Dave wrote: > >The DEC equipment was great stuff at the time... I did a lot of > >automation work in conjunction with DEC 11/23's 11/34's etc. Mostly > >for automatic package sorters and order tracking. I had to go through > >the training session on how to learn how to drill and tap thicknet > >Ethernet.. Cutting edge technology back then. But that was a long > >time ago now..... > > > >I have, I believe, a 11/34 rack in my garage that we never used. It > >cost a small fortune when purchased back in the early 80's. I bought > >it for a project long ago that was cancelled. It sat in the plant for > >years until they decided to scrap it. At the time, I still remembered > >the PO price and there was no way I was going to allow them to scrap > >such a valuable rack! So I loaded it up into my 1978 Chevy conversion > >van while trying not to mark up the red velour interior, the shag > >carpetting, or the tinted red mood lights (really). > >Now it works great as an electric tool storage rack in my garage. :-) > > Remember the DEC VT100s, and what were those giant DEC > >terminal/line printers, those things weighed an awful lot. I think > >the steel companies sold a lot of material to DEC. > > > >Dave > > > > > >On 3/26/2010 6:44 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Friday 26 March 2010, Mark Wendt (Contractor) wrote: > > > > > >> At 10:16 PM 3/25/2010, you wrote: > > >> > > >>> Mark Wendt (Contractor) wrote: > > >>> > > >>>> Ah, VMS. DEC in all it's glory! Still my favorite OS! > > >>>> > > >>> Very sad! It was so CONSISTENT, if a particular option was in a > > >>> particular place, or spelled a certain way, it would be that way > > >>> everywhere it appeared! That was wonderful. > > >>> > > >>> Now that I am a pretty-well converted Linux guy, I can see some of the > > >>> places it didn't run all that well. One was if files got too > > >>> fragmented, the file system (RMS) would just crash, and the > > >>> de-fragmenting was pretty messy, rolling the whole volume to tape and > > >>> restoring. > > >>> Creating a child process was awfully slow. As memory got bigger, the > > >>> page size was way too small, and the page table became a monster. The > > >>> Alpha architecture tried to fix the last one, but it only partially > > >>> accomplished that. We still have an Alpha system running at work. > > >>> I finally retired my home VaxStation-II that I built from boards bought > > >>> > > >> >from brokers. KA-630, VCB-02. The hard drive croaked. > > >> > > >>> Jon > > >>> > > >> We had a VAX 600 running here at the Lab that resided on it's own > > >> little network, and it had an uptime of well over 10 years... > > >> > > >> Mark > > >> > > > And I once had a CBS supplied PDP-11/23 that self reset itself > > several times > > > a day, and just plain crashed several more times. DEC field service > > > couldn't fix it and they changed everything but the frame rail the serial > > > number was on. They couldn't change that because the service contract was > > > for that serial number. Because of that one machine, at one affiliates > > > site, CBS had to replace every computer at every affiliate. What > > forced the > > > issue was me blowing up so often that their tech made the mistake of > > > offering to trade me his test mule for mine. When he found it wouldn't > > > run > > > long enough to be used as a service fixture and the DEC folks in NYC > > > couldn't fix it either, they replaced them all with an IBM industrial with > > > an ARTIC card. > > > > > > > > >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >> ---- Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > > >> Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > > >> proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > > >> See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > > >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> Emc-users mailing list > > >> [email protected] > > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > >Try the new software tools for yourself. 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