15 Jan
2004
15 Jan
'04
1:11 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: Antonio Carlini [mailto:arcarlini@iee.org]
Sent: 15 January 2004 23:34
To: witchy(a)binarydinosaurs.co.uk; 'General Discussion: On-Topic and
Off-Topic Posts'
Subject: RE: Field trip :)
Nope, it's a simple cage with a 4-slot backplane with extended bolts that
'plugs in' to a bigger enclosure, which might be the brown box you're
talking about - I might have just the innards. Any clues on what it actually
was?
M7270 - KD11-HA LSI 11/2 CPU
M7944 x2 - 4K RAM
M8027 - LPV11 driver.
Is this a small brownish box that you can reasonably lift with
two hands (or maybe even one)? If so I think I've seen one
before and they are pretty nice! which are the only ones that can do stuff like format
an
RD device from scratch. You could make yourself very popular
by firing up your nearest OpenVMS box with an RX50 and
having a go at BACKUP/PHYSICAL!
Not a problem, assuming either this MVI or my MVII still work. Since I got
them from a retired DEC engineer they must be field circus diags; from what
I remember the customer ones were only 2 disks (format being one of them
IIRC) whereas these ones are upwards of 6 or 7 disks. There's at least 6
sets of them too.
I'm most interested at seeing what version of VMS is on the MV I......It's
got over a meg of memory so it could be 4.5 or 4.6. 5.x wouldn't run with
less than 4 would it?
As for the VMS V5 disks: I *think* there are either
18
or 23 in the full set. I never actually had to try an
install using such a set - it must have been very painful.
Looks about right, it's just the labelling that's confusing since they've
got the required, optional and library sets with different 'total' numbers,
ie 12/32, 13/32 etc when there's clearly not 32 disks in the set.
Once you've taken the trouble to set up a box to
back up
the diags, it would be a shame not to do these while
you are at it :-)
heh! I'm desperately trying to remember if the BA123 box I thought was my
MVII (well, it was the company's back in the late 80s) was actually upgraded
by me to be an MV 3400 or not. I know I got a BA213 (?) 'real' MV3400 cab to
house the boards in its later life but I can't remember if I restored the
MVII to its former glory.....grr....I know exactly where the cab is so I'll
check.
As an aside the MVII back then ended up being called 'fruit' because it was
paired with a 3100-10 called 'nut' to form the 'fruit&nut cluster' :)
The
MVII was replaced with a 3100-40 (whose motherboard I've still got ) called
'dough'. You can guess the rest.
Probably worth recording the disk part numbers (I
think
they all vary slightly so each diskette is uniquely
identifiable) in maybe the filename.
No bother.
You can probably back these up with PUTR too: I've
never
tried but I know that BACKUP/PHYSICAL will work (I
restored some WPS disks years ago using that method).
I'll make it a priority once I've finished building the cupboards in the
alcoves in the living room :) Bloody B&Q [1] with their warping
doors....grr.....
[1] UK copy of Home Depot for our US readers, though with no sign of Norm
Abram :)
cheers
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