[Info-vax] rx2600s on eBay

[Hein, Nashua NH]

On Apr 28, 8:52 pm, JC <thecook... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Just a quick update on the ebay rx2600 servers I purchased
:
> every stage. A great lady called Penny was my vendor
> contact person, she was terrific and very helpful at all
> times. The servers arrived in excellent condition and
> were very well packaged to prevent damage.

Agreed.


> I ordered DVD-ROM/CDRW drives from the HP Canada parts store which is
> http://h20141.www2.hp.com/hpparts/ > Part number is A9919-67001  Price CDN$195

I found some on Ebay for much less, but that seller ran out.
It's better to speak to Penny and buy an additional RX2600... with
DVD.
They are not currently listing those on Ebay and sell the whole system
for USD125
Those systems also come with a LSI22915 HP A6829 Dual Ch Ultra160 LVD
SCSI PCI board
that works with OpenVMS, but I would recommend a SmartArray from Ebay.


> I haven't used the Management processor on the rx2600 servers as I
> don't have the special tri-connector cable required and these are hard to find at
> a decent price.

Think Radioshack, soldering iron! I sacrifieced an old db25 male-male
cable and a serial cable.
Glued it all together. Worked fine: db25/2 -> db9/3, db25/3 ->db9/2;
db25/7 -> db9/5

> Overall I am very satisfied and would recommend anyone to take
> advantage of this excellent opportunity.

Ditto.

Hein.