4.3BSD Quasijarus

Yes, the 725/730 is limited to 5Mb, although it's tricky to find enough slots for this if you've got any peripherals. I have a 11/730 that's fortunate to also have the BA11-K UNIBUS expander box, so I've got room for 5Mb, but that was an unusual configuration. The memory boards used in the 730 are the same as the 11/750 1Mb memory boards. My 11/730 runs, except for the R80 which needs a new HDA (alas, Rx80 HDAs are pretty much unobtainium today), however it also has a UDA50 and two RA81s, so there's plenty of disk space. I'm afraid I'm not much interested in Un*x, but I'll ask my wife (who is the Un*x dweeb) if she's interested in trying Quasijarus/BSD on it. Is there a 9-track distribution? How do you install it? Normally you'd install VMS from 9-track by booting S/A BACKUP from TU58 or an RL02 pack - I assume there's some kind of stand alone mtboot program for Un*x, but what media do you load that from? I've also got a 11/725 that's in good shape except for a few missing pieces of sheet metal, but like Ethan I've no working RC25 drive. A UNIBUS SMD controller is an option - there are some small 8" SMD disks that mist just fit inside the chassis in place of the RC25 - but a UNIBUS SCSI controller would be a better way to go, since it'd be no problem to fit a SCSI disk in there. Unfortunately neither SMD nor SCSI UNIBUS controllers are easy to come by. Bob