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
