11 May
2016
11 May
'16
4:05 p.m.
On 11/05/2016 23:08, "Ethan Dicks" <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 5:24 PM, Adrian Graham
<witchy at binarydinosaurs.co.uk> wrote:
Not the 82xx/83xx, but the larger 85xx, 87xx and 88xx... Machines with
a Nautilus bus, mostly. The 8200|8250|8300|8350 were more like a
VAX-11/750 where the console "processor" was embedded into the CPU.
My memory's getting skewed with age, clearly. I can remember RKG's (Royal
Kingdom of Geordies) finest 2 engineers upgrading the 8350s to 8550s and the
passage of time has me convinced it was 'only' a backplane swap. I was
purely a code monkey back then. One thing that definitely happened was the
MD of this company was going to have his new VAXen removed again because
they didn't have blinkenlights.
Some
others had a PRO as their console. Don't remember which models
specifically.
The 8{3|5}50s our biggest customer used had Pro380 VAX CONSOLES
Nope. TSX-11 was not a DEC product. Pro350s and
Pro380s (Pro325
didn't have a hard disk) usually ran P/OS, an RSX derivative for the
Professional series. You could also get RT-11 for the Pro, as well as
VENIX, but when used as a VAX console, it was P/OS and some
menus/assets for being a console. It's not hard to repurpose them.
Aaah P/OS! Yes, I think it's all the recent chat on here about TSX-11 that
had me thinking that's what was running. The box of floppies I got might
contain P/OS disks....Tomorrow I'll grab the RCD socket from the kitchen and
plug said console in and will be prepared to be amazed if the RD51 spins up.
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