5 Jun
2009
5 Jun
'09
10:49 p.m.
On Jun 5, 2009, at 4:46 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
Same here.
That sounds like it'll be very handy.
It's cool,
but *really* slow. Dicking with the overlays when
building new kernels is fun the first few times, but after that..
Okay, that does not sound fun at all. Somehow that is more in line
with why
I've said I don't collect old UNIX boxes. All my old ones were
much newer
when I aquired them! :-) I like my UNIX fast and modern. That said,
though, I do keep an 11/83 ready-to-boot with 2.11BSD
because it's very handy to be able to squirt disk images around
via FTP and dd them to and from physical disks.
I have a MicroVAX III that is currently in storage, but will soon
be moving into our garage. I built it to handle those sort of
things, and I have a SCSI box I can hook up to a Sun for the SCSI
HD's on my PDP-11. That's the nice thing about the removable
tray's on the PDP-11. The MicroVAX III
handles reading and writing RL01 and RL02 images nicely. I'm glad
you made
me think of this, I need to be sure and leave room to get the row
of 19"
racks into the garage!
What OS are you running on the -III?
It will be interesting to see how all the hardware
has held up after being in storage for the past nine years. Though
until I
get the cooling and power issues solved I won't be able to run much.
I've dug quite a few things out of storage (~8yrs) over the past
year, and have had mostly good luck. That damnable disintegrating
filter foam makes a hell of a mess, but beyond that, most things have
survived.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL