[Info-vax] Looking for a source for replace or repair some power supplies

[Bill Pechter]

In article <aabu7jFrg0U1 at mid.individual.net>,
Bill Gunshannon <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu> wrote:
>In article <k1og9g$onn$1 at dont-email.me>,
>	David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>> Michael Moroney wrote:
>>> David Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes:
>>> 
>>>> Subject sort of says most of the issue.  I'm looking in the USA, shiping 
>>>>from elsewhere will probably be unreasonable.
>>> 
>>>> 2) ASTEC MODEL SA180-3505  for an AlphaStation 200 / 233
>>> 
>>> I may have a PC ATX power supply that I converted to work on an  
>>> AlphaStation 200 a while ago.
>> 
>> Yeah, David Turner was telling me about how to do that, if I could find 
>> an old power supply that provided -5 volt.
>
>Do ATX or the older PC PSU's provide it?  I have a number of old PC
>PSU's floating around here.
>
>> 
>> I'm thinking the AlphaStation 800 will become my primary Alpha.  Better 
>> in most regards.  Not sure about the power draw, but, I've been running 
>> it anyway to back up the other VMS systems ....
>> 
>> Found some refurbished, $500.  I think I may have paid $100 for the 
>> entire system.
>> 
>> I'm starting to get the idea that I should put my VAXstation 4000 
>> systems up for sale for maybe $5000 each.  Prices for old stuff are 
>> ridiculous.
>
>Only if your buying.  I have tried selling in the past and have been
>unable to get as much as an $11 offer for items being sold by resellers
>for hundreds of dollars. (I once was offered $100 for all my PDP-11
>modules which included two particular UNIBUS Ethernet Modules that
>the very same reseller was offering on their website for $1500!)
>
>bill
>
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Did it happen to be an NI1010A?

Trying to remember the part number for the wierd ethernet used by
Perkin=Elmer/Concurrent.  I'd love to get the hardware info so I could
find the programming info.  Getting that to talk TCP/IP under SIMH
sounds cool.

Bill

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