DSSI! Brian, excuse me, but you're nuts :-) -Steve -----Original Message----- From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Brian Hechinger Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 10:40 PM To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Subject: Re: [HECnet] Multinet Tunnel Links defined I've got 4x VLC motherboards. I should really rig up some power for then. How is IO on the cf card? I've got a system here that might turn into a dedicated simh box and I'd love to use a cf card in it. Hmm, it might also be time to resurrect that old laptop as well. Dammit! See what you've all gone and done? Not only am I looking for machines to run simh on I've started looking for some dssi cables so I can rebuild my VAX 4000/500 cluster!! -brian On Dec 21, 2011, at 22:22, "Bob Armstrong" <bob at jfcl.com> wrote: If I remember correctly, LEGATO is the same platform for the exact purpose. It used to be. I believe the VLC is the lowest power VAX ever made (and I'm sure I'll be corrected if I'm wrong :-), but including one SCSI hard disk it still uses 60-70W. It's not much, but running 24x7 it adds up. LEGATO is now a simh emulation on an eBox-3300. It's about as fast as the VLC, and uses 5W. Yes, five watts, and that includes the CF card that serves as the emulated VAX disk drive. It makes me feel like I'm cheating somehow, not running a real VAX, but the power difference is hard to ignore. Bob