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

[gah4]

On Friday, September 29, 2023 at 3:12:43 PM UTC-7, Rich Alderson wrote:
> gah4 <ga... 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. 

Yes, but it makes a better excuse for forgetting which machines are
connected to what.

And it was a while before 2020 when I was last there.
 
> > 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. 

I remember the corner with drives, and remember it being closer
to the PDP-10 than the 11/780-5.  The web site doesn't have much
of a map of what is where, and even less, what is connected to what.
 
> > 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.