6 Jul
2025
6 Jul
'25
10:54 a.m.
Pierre,
We don’t have the power, cooling, or space in our display area to run the 11/780 or the
8650. We don’t have any spare boards for either machine, which would make debugging
difficult. It looks like they will remain display pieces.
On Jul 6, 2025, at 9:05 AM, P Gebhardt via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Hello Michael,
We have an 8650 at the Rhode Island Computer
Museum. Unfortunately I don't
think that there is any home of getting it running again.
https://www.ricomputermuseum.org/collections-gallery/equipment/dec-vax-8650
--
Michael Thompson
What are the reasons to believe that there is only little hope for the one at RICM?
Did you start to work on getting it up and running?
Indeed, if the boards are faulty, then it will be challenging to fix them or find
replacements, I guess.
Best regards,
Pierre
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