7 Sep
2022
7 Sep
'22
2:38 a.m.
Ah, thanks Steve, will do! I've got to get the MicroVAX-II out of
the way first, I hope to finish that up by this weekend, or at least
next week.
If anyone has any VR-260 monitors lying dormant, we're looking for a
couple for the museum. Working preferred, but we'll fix them if not.
-Dave
On 9/6/22 19:07, Steve Davidson wrote:
Dave,
I ran VMS on the CANINE:: notes server at DEC. It was a MicroVAX-I with dual RC-25’s.
When you bring it up, let me know and I can have a go at tuning it. You WILL be surprised
at what you can get out of that little beast! I know - I was… :-)
-Steve
SF:IP2
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On Sep 6, 2022, at 15:21, Dave McGuire
<mcguire(a)neurotica.com> wrote:
On 9/6/22 14:32, Johnny Billquist wrote:
Well, we'll do the best we can, and I'll learn those limitations. I myself was
never a PDP-10 guy; I cut my teeth on PDP-8, PDP-11, and VAX systems. I'm slowly
learning TOPS-20 on the SC-40 so we can open it up for giving accounts to people here.
(and elsewhere)
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VAX-11/780 will hopefully be up and running sometime this winter, as will the second
PDP-11/70. One of the DECsystem-2020s may come up this winter as well, depending on
volunteer time availability. I just started putting together a MicroVAX-II dual-booting
VMS 4.7 and Ultrix, and will try to get DECnet running under Ultrix on that.
The
-2020 will be tricky to get up on HECnet, though. As far as I remember/know, it only
officially had Phase III. And you need to run TOPS-20 V4.
Not sure if Tops-10 ever had DECnet on them, but if it did, I would suspect it's the
same story there. The -2020s I ever used just ran Tops-10 with ANF-10. But let's hope you can get some of those
other systems up and online a bit more.
We're doing the best we can. I think we've done very well with what little
help we've had. I've had a soldering iron inside just about every one of those
machines.
The MVI is another interesting beast. Not sure
when VMS stopped supporting that one, but it was probably quite some time ago. Max 4MB of
memory is somewhat limiting. :-)
Yes, and having that memory directly on the Qbus is pretty limiting too. But still,
strangely, the machine has personality. I ran one (as a VAXstation-I) back in the 1980s.
It wasn't fast, but it was a VAX, and it was mine, when all my friends were farting
around with their Commodore 64s! B-)
VMS officially de-supported the MicroVAX-I as of, I think, v6.2, but I don't know
if support was actually removed. That said, running a VMS release that late on a -I would
be extremely painful, so I'll probably run 4.7 on this one, to get at least some
performance out of it.
-Dave
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New Kensington, PA
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