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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.
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>> I am located in Glenview, Illinois
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> 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.)
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> The museum is still there, but has been closed since early 2000.
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> 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
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