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The day Kari and I went to Lund to pick up the VAX 11/780
Posted by Tommie Mademark in VAX 11/780 on Monday 27 June, 2011
On Monday the 20th of June, Kari came over from Finland and the two of us drove down to Lund to get the VAX 780 system “VEGA” at Lunds Tekniska Högskola. I made a mistake in that I thought we were going on Tuesday and so I delayed our departure from Upplands Väsby with about 20 minutes. With the aid of Tomas and Roger of the Computer Science department we loaded and secured the system on Kari’s truck. We were able to position the cabinets in a very tight formation and only needed to secure the load with only one load securing strap. I t took us all night to drive back to Upplands Väsby where we arrived at 7 in the morning. Kari went on to Kapellskär to take the ferry across to Finland and the VAX 780 is now sitting in Kari’s garage waiting for the UNIBUS and MASSBUSS to be hooked up to the CPU and the tape an disk to the MASSBUSS and to be fired up after Kari has made the necessary checks of the power supplies.
The VAX 11/780 system “VEGA” at Lunds Tekniska Högskola
Posted by Tommie Mademark in VAX 11/780 on Friday 29 April, 2011
- VAX 11/780 CPU
- RP07 Disk Drive
- TU72 Tape Drive and UNIBUS Expander Cabinet
- TU78 Tape Drive
Click here for more information and additional pictures on my VAX 11/780 system.
The VAX 11/780 is now at it’s new home in Finland. More about the move later.