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Did anyone here get this BA11-L 1134/A ?

I bid high, but not high enough as it went for $1225 !!!

Looked to be in fairly good shape and it was close enough for a 1/2 day drive to pick it up.

Missing a unibus terminator and possible mouse house insulation noted as well as chewed front panel cable?

Two bonus orange handle modules.

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dalmill said:
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Did anyone here get this BA11-L 1134/A ?

I bid high, but not high enough as it went for $1225 !!!

Looked to be in fairly good shape and it was close enough for a 1/2 day drive to pick it up.

Missing a unibus terminator and possible mouse house insulation noted as well as chewed front panel cable?

Two bonus orange handle modules.

Dale
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I tried but also did not bid high enough. I think an 11/34a would make a nice, first Unibus system to go with all my QBus PDPs. Maybe another time.
 
I suppose. I mean it's cute and small and all, but so is an 11/24 5.25 size and the 24 has a more easy to get floating point, CIS support, and a Unibus memory map.

Add a floating point board and cache and yes it would be a zippy little system, but still the box would be pretty much full. For that kind of money I'd just say get a 24 or 44 system.
 
czunit said:
I suppose. I mean it's cute and small and all, but so is an 11/24 5.25 size and the 24 has a more easy to get floating point, CIS support, and a Unibus memory map.

Add a floating point board and cache and yes it would be a zippy little system, but still the box would be pretty much full. For that kind of money I'd just say get a 24 or 44 system.
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I see what you mean. I had assumed the 11/24 used the same funky P/S as the 11/44 so wanted to stay away from that, but according to Gunkies.Org ( https://gunkies.org/wiki/PDP-11/24 ) it's the same H777 as the 11/34a which is good. Although the 11/34's programmer's panel would be fun.

I don't have room for RL02 disks so I'd go with a UniBone to emulate storage (and memory, if necessary).

Now I have some new things to hunt for. ;)
 
The BA11-L is not a fun chassis to work with. The innards slides outs of an envelope. BA11-K is extremely heavy but much easier to work with.
 
reinhardtjh said:
I see what you mean. I had assumed the 11/24 used the same funky P/S as the 11/44 so wanted to stay away from that, but according to Gunkies.Org ( https://gunkies.org/wiki/PDP-11/24 ) it's the same H777 as the 11/34a which is good. Although the 11/34's programmer's panel would be fun.

I don't have room for RL02 disks so I'd go with a UniBone to emulate storage (and memory, if necessary).

Now I have some new things to hunt for. ;)
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Yeah it's a little tiny cute power supply, however it only has +12 and not +15 so memories need to be appropriate types. I really should get a Unibone or two for all this stuff, are they still for sale?
 
czunit said:
Yeah it's a little tiny cute power supply, however it only has +12 and not +15 so memories need to be appropriate types. I really should get a Unibone or two for all this stuff, are they still for sale?
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I have not talked to Joerg lately, but I hope so. I think the limiting thing is the interface chips. He's had to work up several different solutions as chips have gone unobtanium. I have 3 QBones from him but the last 2 were kits I bought a couple years ago. I got some QProbe 2023 panels from him last year.
 
If I could get it for around $10 then the flight from DFW to SFO and a mid sized SUV rental to drive back the 1700 miles to Fort Worth might make a reasonable total. :biggrin:
 
Sometimes, with auctions like these, I wondered whether you could buy the whole thing (for a really low number), and then ask the seller to remove the boards, ship those, and throw the rest away. Never tried that because I expect most sellers don't want to get stuck with it, or are too lazy to bring it to a scrapyard for the metal.
Shipping costs plus 21% tax over value worth AND shipping costs quickly makes anything just too expensive.
It is what it is.
 
Henk said:
Sometimes, with auctions like these, I wondered whether you could buy the whole thing (for a really low number), and then ask the seller to remove the boards, ship those, and throw the rest away. Never tried that because I expect most sellers don't want to get stuck with it, or are too lazy to bring it to a scrapyard for the metal.
Shipping costs plus 21% tax over value worth AND shipping costs quickly makes anything just too expensive.
It is what it is.
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Back in 2014-ish when I bought my MicroVAX 3100 M95 from a guy that turned out to be just a few miles from me, he also had listed a VAX 4000-200 (or 300) and an RF440 chassis which he sold (before I could get it) and the buyer did that exact thing. Gutted it and shipped the QBus boards, the disks, the fans and the P/S leaving the husk of two BA400 chassis. The guy ended up giving them to me to get rid of them and I kept them until 2017 when I moved to Texas. I had hoped to be able to refill the missing pieces but was not able so I gave them away along with 4 trailer loads of other stuff ( 2 AlphaServer 1200's, 2 AlphaServer 800's, 3 MicroWay DS20 equivalents and more).
 
VAX 4000-50 and related stuff in New Jersey

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DEC VAX 4000-50 computer - Plus a load of other DEC stuff | eBay

Everything in this auction was pulled from a working 3 node cluster 10 years ago. 2 VAX 4000-50 Nemonix BRICK Upgrade CPU's. One installed in a BA400/4000-200 enclosure, and one not. The one that is not installed fails to boot. Don't have a VT terminal or LK keyboard to test. System boots to an...
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