Hello Rob,
If you end up parting this out to others who have dying motherboards or PSUs:
How much RAM does it have? I bought a 3000/700 last week on eBay, it's supposed to
arrive this week.
For what it's worth: I have about a dozen Turbochannel machines that I'm slowly
reviving, to work on NetBSD drivers for FDDI and graphics/console support. I've got
one of every TC framebuffer (excluding the Kubota/Denali, and the framebuffer with a port
to drive an early-90s flat panel). That's partly why there are so few left on eBay at
reasonable prices.
It anyone has a PMTCE extender box that they're wiling to part with, I'd pay the
price resellers list. (They're all long sold).
The PMTCE only supports a single TC device, but it ets you install a single 3-slot board,
but only consumes one slot on the host. I have two or three of the adapter boards. Rob
Jarrett wants to keep his, after the labour of love to restore it.
On Monday, April 26, 2021, 11:12:18 AM PDT, Rob Laz via cctech <cctech at
classiccmp.org> wrote:
? Digital DEC 3000
I have an old DEC 3000 unit that I no longer have time or space for, and
was wondering what to do with it.
The rear plate shows PE42A-B9, CPU KN17, DEC 3000 600S and the ROM has a
sticker showing Dec 1989.
I have a video cable but not a suitable monitor so can't fully test it
but I think it is booting up OK as the diagnostic LED's on the rear show
11011101 or DD in hex which I think means it has booted OK to console.
It has been running in the past and my last efforts were probably 10+
years ago when I installed VMS version 7 with a guest licence.
I also have a few peripherals including a SZ12 disk unit, LK201
keyboard, circular mouse and various SCSI and video cables.
It has been stored in my garage which is not totally sealed so it has
suffered a little corrosion to the rear connectors but it looks recoverable.
All thoughts and opinions welcome.