Available VAX

Down in Macon, GA my dad has a DEC that we would like to send to a good home. He purchased this several years ago from a man in north Georgia who said it spend the 1990s answering the phone at a utility company. My dad kept it in his classroom while he was a high school technology teacher, but now that he's no longer teaching it's gathering dust on his carport.

There's a VAXstation 3, DECvoice unit, two hard drives, and a tape drive in an enclosure on wheels. There's also a VT420 terminal.

You can see some pictures of the equipment at http://www.flickr.com/photos/puerexmachina/sets/72157622981044137/

Please pass this on to anyone you think might be interested!

Wow that's a really nice system.

Is it me, or is that mostly and empty shell? See:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/puerexmachina/3790836394/in/set-72157622981044137/
and
http://www.flickr.com/photos/puerexmachina/4229822449/in/set-72157622981044137/

kb2syd said:

Is it me, or is that mostly and empty shell? See:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/puerexmachina/3790836394/in/set-72157622981044137/
and
http://www.flickr.com/photos/puerexmachina/4229822449/in/set-72157622981044137/

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It's just you. The first picture shows the front of the BA23 boxes with the drives removed. Another picture shows the bare drives that have been removed.

The second picture shows the rear of the BA23 boxes and it looks like the card cages are reasonably full of cards and several cards are attached to the ribbon cables going to the rear bulkhead.

-Glen

Must be a depth perception thing on my part. The "Front open" looks like it is empty most of the way through the depth, but lookin from the rear you do see boards. Not used to VAX layout. Thanks for the clarification.

BA23 enclosures have a "midplane" so everything on both sides connects to the middle of the unit.

If anyone wants more pictures, I can probably take some the weekend of the 23rd. I'm afraid I don't know much about the hardware myself.

I have the little board with the baud-rate switch etc on somewhere, free to a good home! - love the grasshopper!