15 Jun
2002
15 Jun
'02
11:56 a.m.
On 14 Jun, Rick Bensene wrote:
It is a Digital Equipment 3000, Model 600.
That
is a nice machine. I have one too, but I can not afford to run it.
It produces to much heat. (As I have some other heaters running like
that 500MHz Alpha...) :-(
I am afraid to say that this machine may not be 10 years old. But I am
sure you will get dispense, as this thing is Cool Stuff (C) (R) (TM) and
nearly 10 years old. ;-)
It's HEAVY.
Of course, it's DEC.
Anyone know anything about this machine?
I know
evertything about it. ;-)
I haven't hooked up a console to it (it uses a
funky RJ-style connector for the console port).
This connector is called MMJ, a
DECism. google for pinouts...
There is an old-style Centronics SCSI connector on the
back,
Yes. It has two FastSCSI busses. One internal and one external.
as well as old AUI-style 10Base2 connector for
Ethernet.
And it should have a 10BaseT connector. You can select the Ethernet
port via a console environment variable.
It also appears to have a built-in ISDN interface.
Yes.
There's three slots for option cards,
Yes.
That are TurboChannel slots.
and one haswhat appears to be some kind of color
framebuffer card
This is the framebuffer, the type should be printed on the card.
(Somthing like PMAGB-B)
Do you have the keyboard / mouse break out cable? This cable has a SubD
15 at one end, and a little box with keyboard / mouse connectors at the
other. You need a DEC LK201 / LK401 keyboard and VSXXX mouse.
If you don't have it, look at the back. There is a litle switch (S3?)
that you can flip to force the machine to the serial console on the MMJ
connector.
with a 3-pin (RGB?) D-style connector.
This
connector is called 3W3 and it is RGB with sync on green.
Can anyone tell me more about this machine?
Ask, if any questions left. :-)
What processor does it use?
Alpha EV4 21064
175MHz.
Is it VAX-like?
No.
Operating systems? VMS/Ultrix?
VMS
OSF/1 / DEC UNIX / Tru64 UNIX
NetBSD, OpenBSD, perhaps FreeBSD
_no_ Linux
_no_ Ultrix
If you want a free *ix, go with NetBSD. The upcoming NetBSD 1.6 release
will support some of the framebuffers for console and even X11.
If you happen to have a Tru64 license, try it. It is a nice, BSDish *ix
that can Move Big Rocks (C) (R) (TM).
If VMS is your taste, you have the perfect machine to run it.
--
tschuess,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz
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