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> Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2022 11:39:01 -0500
> From: Chris Zach
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> The thing that always made me wonder is where are all the 8600's. The
> 8600 was apparently the best selling large Vax, outselling the 780 and
> 750, so what happened to all of them? They weren't any bigger than a 780...
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On Jan 3, 2022, at 8:39 AM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
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> The thing that always made me wonder is where are all the 8600's. The 8600
> was apparently the best selling large Vax, outselling the 780 and 750, so
> what happened to all of them? They weren't any bigger than a 780...
The only
On 1/3/22 9:16 AM, emanuel stiebler via cctalk wrote:
On 2022-01-03 08:54, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
Not too surprising; the /780 and /785 are basically the
same machine. (In
fact, one could convert a /780 to a /785 by pulling out
the /780 CPU cards
and replacing them with a set of /785
There should be more /785s out there than plain /780...
IIRC, most /780 were upgraded, as the "old" /780 had some EMC issues
in the field? Am I dreaming this up?
The thing that always made me wonder is where are all the 8600's. The
8600 was apparently the best selling large Vax, outselling the
On 2022-01-03 08:54, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
Not too surprising; the /780 and /785 are basically the same machine. (In
fact, one could convert a /780 to a /785 by pulling out the /780 CPU cards
and replacing them with a set of /785 cards; basically the same cards, with
the 74S chips
> From: Grant Taylor
> From that last picture, it looks like one of the plugs is five pronged,
> and looks very similar to the 120/208V 30A 3? plug in one of the
> pictures about the current 780 auction.
Not too surprising; the /780 and /785 are basically the same machine. (In
> On Jan 2, 2022, at 1:03 PM, Toby Thain via cctalk
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> On 2022-01-02 2:48 p.m., Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
>> > From: Jonathan Chapman
>> > Last one that went auction-style on eBay went for $1,178.00
>> When was that?
>> Do you have any details of the machine's config?
Ah yes! And I am in Arizona too.. Ed#
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On Sun, Jan 2, 2022 at 2:12 PM, emanuel stiebler via
cctalk wrote: On 2022-01-02 16:03, Toby Thain via
cctalk wrote:
> On 2022-01-02 2:48 p.m., Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
>> > From: Jonathan
On 1/2/22 2:03 PM, Toby Thain via cctalk wrote:
https://i.imgur.com/OjQWk55.jpg
From that last picture, it looks like one of the plugs is five pronged,
and looks very similar to the 120/208V 30A 3ɸ plug in one of the
pictures about the current 780 auction.
I can't tell if the other plug is
On 2022-01-02 16:03, Toby Thain via cctalk wrote:
On 2022-01-02 2:48 p.m., Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
> From: Jonathan Chapman
> Last one that went auction-style on eBay went for $1,178.00
When was that?
Do you have any details of the machine's config?
That's a pretty good
That's the one! Clearly I forgot some of the details.
Thanks,
Jonathan
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On Sunday, January 2nd, 2022 at 16:03, Toby Thain via cctalk
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> On 2022-01-02 2:48 p.m., Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
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> > > From: Jonathan Chapman
> >
> > > Last one
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