Qbus
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Picked up the Micro Vax Two this last weekend and have it home now. The system was last used by the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan and they have removed all the drives. It came in the rack with all the cabling, brake out panels for the terminals and a bunch of additional drive cables but none of the drives themselves. The rack has the CDC BY3A6 open reel tape transport and then the BA-23 Micro Vax frame and is populated with one KA-630(M-7607) CPU, two MS-630 Memory cards, a Emulex SU0310402 communications card, a Emulex TC02/TS11 CDC Tape Controller card (TU0210401) and a Emulex CU0210402 hard drive controller card with four ten foot cables but no drives for them to connect too. The bottom end has one M-3106 (DZQ-11), an M-7555 RQDX3 disk controller and an M-7546 for the TK 50 drive up front. Someone also stole the AC power controller from the base of the rack but fortunately I have a spare so no problem replacing that. Plan to have everything cleaned up and together tonight and attach a terminal and run the system up. Think the big problems now are going to be locating a RD51 or RD52 MFM style hard drive to connect to the RQDX3 and then deciding on the operating system.
Ray F/AKA QBus
Ray F/AKA QBus