5 Aug
1997
5 Aug
'97
1:46 a.m.
At 00:02 05-08-97 PDT, you wrote:
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 1997 12:00:21 +0500
From: Jeff Hellige <jeffh(a)unix.aardvarkol.com>
To: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu
Cc: adam(a)merlin.net.au
Subject: Re: Classic Computer Rescue - A Story
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On 04-Aug-97, Brett wrote:
thing is
Saturday August 2, 1997 - 07:00
The alarm went off and I lept up from bed. Today was The Day. The Illinois
arm of the Classic Computer Rescue Squad was to make it's first Rescue!
Interesting story...I also made my first rescue today! As some of you
already know, I was set to pick up a MicroVax II...well, I did! This a beast though...barely got it into the house by
myself. Here are the specs
on it though I haven't popped open the case yet:
<snip>
Jeff, once you get that case open, please let me know which cards are in
it. The one attached to that 50-pin connector MIGHT be a SCSI-to-QBus adapter.
Now, the guy said he had never seen this machine
actually in use, so it's
been sitting for a while. When it was used though, he said it took input
from
some sensors on scales and processed that in different
ways.
That's the full extent of what I can tell you about this machine at this
point, until I've gotten into the case. Any comments, info, suggestions,
ect.
will be more than welcome!
I have several items that may be of help, including a distribution tape
for MicroVMS 4.5 (or 4.6? I can never remember). For what they're worth,
I've also got a customer-level diagnostic tape. Both are on TK50 cartridges.
If either would be of help, I can make you a copy and send it along. I
also have some hardware docs on the MicroVAXen. FYI, sounds like you got
the BA123 enclosure.
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