15 Jun
2002
15 Jun
'02
10:03 a.m.
On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Rick Bensene wrote:
Hello,
I made a haul of various computer stuff yesterday, most of which is too
new to qualify
for the 10 year rule, but not sure if this one is or not.
It is a Digital Equipment 3000, Model 600.
It is a desktop-style case with horizontal orientation. It's HEAVY.
How many people have asked what a DEC 3000 is in the last few months? I
know I did, and one or two other people...
Anyone know anything about this machine?
Yes. It's a Turbochanel Alpha machine, the 175MHz Sandpiper+. Runs
Digital Unix (or OSF/1 or whatever it's now called), VMS, or NetBSD.
NetBSD doesn't support the LK{4|2}01 keybard, however. Linux might or
might not be functional on it.
Easiest way to find out info is google. NetBSD's site has info on it
Aparently there's a work on getting the Alpha Linux port to work...
http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~prescott/linux/alpha/dec3000-port.html
The HP/Compaq specs...
http://www.compaq.com/alphaserver/archive/axp/dec3000_600.html
More random info...
http://www.psych.usyd.edu.au/pdp-11/alpha_specs.html
It powers up OK, and goes through a sequence of
flashing different codes
(POST?)
on 8 LED's on the back panel. I haven't hooked up a console to it (it
uses a
funky RJ-style connector for the console port). It has a CD-ROM drive
in the of
It's called MMJ. You can find out info on it by using google.
the cabinet. There is an old-style Centronics SCSI
connector on the
back, as
Not centronics. SCSI-I. I'm starting to feel that hangover again. :)
well as old AUI-style 10Base2 connector for Ethernet.
It also appears
to have
Errr AUI == DA15 connector, 10Base2 == BNC connector. Do you mean AUI or
10Base2? My 3000/600 has a 10BaseT (RJ45) connector on back as well, does
yours?
a built-in ISDN interface. There's three slots
for option cards, and
Yup.
one haswhat appears to be some kind of color
framebuffer card with a
3-pin (RGB?) D-style connector.
Standard connector for the framebuffer. Sun and IBM also use it, but IBM
has a different pinout (swap red/green?).
-- Pat
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