On 10/10/17 3:17 PM, Antonio Carlini via cctalk wrote:
On 10/10/17 14:26, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
It's a VAXstation II/RC backplane, it was sold cheaper and crippled by DEC to prevent adding more cards to it.  That was my first VAX, and I think I still have mine.

Zane

The /RC was (apparently) for "Reduced Connectivity" or some such.

The smarter customers noticed that they could save a good chunk of cash by ordering a VS2/RC and then separately ordering a replacement backplane.
DEC noticed that one quite quickly!

An enterprising company here in Oxford was offering to (somehow) dissolve out the glue ... I don't know of anyone who took them up on this though.

Antonio


Memory says: it was MICROVAX/RT and the cpu had a reduced instruction set and was used with
ELN/PASCAL.  IT was a reduced capability machine.

Allison



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