Re: multiple vax 6000's free to a good home

["John Allain" <allain%panix.com@localhost>]

Hi,
  My take would be a maximum of One, however
  I'm not an EE.  Can you reccomend a URL to instructions
  to convert the power supply?  I've heard of at least one person
  who has done such a conversion, possibly to their 240/normal
  phase circuit.
John Allain


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lord Isildur" <mrfusion%vaxpower.org@localhost>
To: <port-vax%netbsd.org@localhost>
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 6:30 PM
Subject: multiple vax 6000's free to a good home


> greetings all,
>
> a contact at the pittsburgh supercomputing center passed word to me that
> they are about to junk several vax6000's. They were recently running,
> but have apparently something funny with the main power supplies. This
> part comes to me secondhand so i dont know if the 'something funny' is
> that they take 3-phase ;)
> i just asked to get some more details about them, ill post more when i
> learn. The machines are located in pittsburgh, pa, and i would assume
> that there is a loading dock and moving the machines out of the building
> should be pretty easy.
> anyone interested, please get in touch with me!
>
> happy hacking,
> isildur