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

[Rich Alderson]

gah4 <gah4 at u.washington.edu> writes:

> 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.

You meant "2020", of course.

> I believe the VAX runs on emulated disk, though.=20

Your belief is irrelevant.

The VAX 11/780-5 ran against an HSJ with a full load of 2GB drives.

> They do have VAX disk drives, but I don't remember RM05 being one of them.

We had a couple of RM05s, but they were part of a DECSYSTEM-2020 that was kept
unrestored (the late Mark Crispin's Lingling.Panda.com).

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

Preach.

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