[Info-vax] Assistance needed!! working RM05 drive and VAX needed for proje

[Dave McGuire]

On 9/27/23 15:17, gah4 wrote:
>> If you have a working setup of a VAX and a working RM05 drive we would love to hear from you.
>   
>> I am located in Glenview, Illinois
> 
> Until a few years ago, the best place to find a running VAX was the Living
> Computer Museum in Seattle.  (That is, a non-micro VAX.)
> 
> The museum is still there, but has been closed since early 2000.
> 
> I believe the VAX runs on emulated disk, though.

   Most everything there was emulated, it seems.

> Keeping old disk drives running is much harder than old CPUs.

   It is, but we do it at LSSM.  It's not like it's impossible.

           -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire, President/Curator
Large Scale Systems Museum
New Kensington, PA