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And the switch don't know if it is a single machine sitting on a port, or another switch, or whatever, so it has the capacity to associate a whole bunch of addresses with a single port.

No need for EDT clones when you have EDT... :-)
EDT is excellent but being jailed to 24 lines is terrible nowdays.

I guess it's just me being so retro. :-)

We have succesfully recovered data from DC600 cartridges written circa 90,
but my tapes were written in 1985 so chances are low. They have been stored
in a dry and cold place, however.

We might very well be able to read that data back...

The 11/60 don't need 3-phase.
I'm puzzled here.

There is nothing in an 11/60 that needs 3-phase power. The only reason it has that is to be able to use a lot of power, and to distribute it evenly. If you look at the power distribution, you'll see that everything inside the machine is just connected to one of the phases. You can replace the power distribution with another DEC power distribution box, which connects to a normal wall plug, and run the whole thing one just one phase just as well. Just make sure you have enough power to not blow a fuse. :-)
But I don't think the 11/60 draws that much, so I would suspect a 10A will be enough.

A general question: this is HECNET list, are non-networking RSX questions
off topic? I have a lot, but i don't want to bother :-)

I think we should draw a limit somewhere. If it gets too much into the innards of RSX we should probably do it offlist.
Feel free to write to me directly if you want to.

But if you think this might interest others, and perhaps have some bearing on HECnet as well, then I think it should be ok to post it here.

	Johnny