[Simh] VUPs?

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Saturday 05 April 2008, Marc Chametzky wrote:
> Not performance related, but I remember that DEC sold a variant of
> the VAXstation-II at a lower price, about half as much as the -II.
>
> This lower-priced machine was virtually identical to the
> VAXstation-II, except that they had epoxied four of the eight QBUS
> slots, rendering them unusable. The processor, memory, graphics, and
> I/O cards were all the same. The only limitation was on future QBUS
> card expansion.

How much did a non-epoxied backplane cost as a spare part?  Also, FWIW, 
a BA23 has 9 slots not 8. :)

Pat
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