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Re: VAX-11/780 up and running at LSSM

From Dave McGuire <mcguire@lssmuseum.org>
Newsgroups comp.os.vms, comp.sys.dec
Subject Re: VAX-11/780 up and running at LSSM
Date 2025-12-06 11:01 -0500
Organization LSSM
Message-ID <faf62429-d261-45d6-8f69-20e8d4feaa39@lssmuseum.org> (permalink)
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On 12/5/25 11:22, chrisq wrote:
>>>>     Hi folks, I thought some here might be interested to hear that 
>>>> we at
>>>> the Large Scale Systems Museum have gotten our VAX-11/780 to the point
>>>> where it will boot VMS.  We fixed a list of hardware issues as long as
>>>> my arm, but it runs, and it runs great.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Congratulations.
>>
>>    Thanks!
>>
>>> BTW, how many sales reps have the local power company
>>> assigned to you ?
>>
>>    They used to send us christmas cards, now they send us fruit baskets.
>>
>>    I wish I was kidding.
>>
>>    Thank heaven for supportive donors. (we are a donor-funded 501(c) 
>> (3) nonprofit)
> 
>  From memory, around 6.9 Kilowatts, 3 phase, for just the cpu
> and no peripherals or storage etc. Would make a great lab heater.
   Nothing of note internally is 3-phase; ours is running on 
single-phase.  A LOT of it.  We can definitely tell when it's powered 
up. :-)

             -Dave

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

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  Re: VAX-11/780 up and running at LSSM Dave McGuire <mcguire@lssmuseum.org> - 2025-12-02 12:15 -0500
    Re: VAX-11/780 up and running at LSSM chrisq <syseng@gfsys.co.uk> - 2025-12-05 16:22 +0000
      Re: VAX-11/780 up and running at LSSM Dave McGuire <mcguire@lssmuseum.org> - 2025-12-06 11:01 -0500

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