[Info-vax] DEC VAX 8650

[Don North]

On 2023-02-09 16:19, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2023-02-09 02:43, Fernando Colon Osorio wrote:
>> On Tuesday, February 14, 1995 at 1:20:08 PM UTC-5, John Slauson wrote:
>>> I have 21 (yes, twenty-one) VAX 8650s to sell. The machines are
>>> new and still in the original DEC boxes. Can anyone help me
>>> determine what a reasonable price for these would be?
>> I know your post was ions ago. However, do you have any left. I will be 
>> interested in purchaing one.
> 
> Almost 30 years. And I doubt the poster was even correct. A VAX8650 isn't 
> exactly just in "a box". The machine is *big*. If you had 21 of them, you'd need 
> some serious storage.
> 
> Price of the hardware might be an interesting question, but the real big one is 
> location. Shipping of one might turn out to be very expensive...
> 
>    Johnny

Are you ...

"Fernando Cristino Colon Osorio is a Puerto Rican engineer, inventor, educator, 
and entrepreneur who is currently the executive director of the Wireless Systems 
Security Research Laboratory (WSSRL). In 1975 he was the primary architect of 
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) PDP 11/60 floating point unit. The FP11E 
incorporated the Newton-Raphson method as a mechanism to accelerate floating 
point division by a factor of 6X. Later in his career at DEC he was the 
principal architect of the Vax 8650, the Vaxft series of Fault Tolerant 
computers, as well as Centaurus, an out of order execution ECL implementation of 
the Vax architecture. In 1982, he proposed and designed the precursor to the 
MicroVax, a first implementation of a system on a chip utilizing 1 micron 
technology. The Project named internally "System On A Chip", was the first 
attempt at DEC's semiconductor division to incorporate 1 million transistor on a 
single chip."

Don North
DEC 1978-82
11/60 FP11 Diagnostics and DCS Diagnostic Microcode