>Along time ago I think I recall a briefcase 11/73 made
>by a third party (not dec) you could use it with your
>silent 700 thermal printing terminal also briefcase
>size. Not sure why that memory came now, but do
>remember I wanted one bad enough to assemble my own
>version from a dual height 11/73

There was a briefcase-sized system (with 5" VT100 monitor
and flip-down membrane keyboard) made by DEC.  It was meant
to be used by field service in diagnosing qbus -11s and
vaxen, but it was (from what I understand) too heavy at
30 lbs so it never made it past the proto stage.  I have
one of them.  It came originally with an 11/2 but I
upgraded it years ago to an 11/73.  It uses TU58s as
the system device.

There was also a third party product which was a suitcase
sized machine.  I have one of those as well, but I don't
know if it originally came with an 11/73 in it (in fact, I
haven't checked out what is in it).

					Megan Gentry
					Former RT-11 Developer

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