5 Jun
2009
5 Jun
'09
11:22 p.m.
On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Dave McGuire wrote:
It runs OpenVMS 7.2 and has a pair of RA72's and a pair of RA73's. It's a
pretty nice system. IIRC though it's only 16MB RAM. It was running VAX/VMS
4.x on a RD53 when I got it, sadly the drive didn't last long enough for me
to get a backup of it. I went with 7.2 instead of 5.5 to get better TCP/IP
support, though used a 5.5 disk to bootstrap it. I did all this about 10
years ago.
I'm most concerned about the PowerMac 8500/180, MicroVAX III, PDP-11/44,
Atari TT030, and my two Amiga 3000's (the one 3000 was last booted about 7
years ago, at which time I had it running Amiga OS 3.9). I'm pretty sure my
Amiga 500 is dead, as I couldn't get it running a couple years ago when I
tried. :-( I'll probably also try to get an Apple ][e or ][gs up and running
as well. My main Commodore 64 has been running off and on, so it should be
Okay (last running around Christmas).
I'm not sure what I'll do with the rest. My interests have changed a lot
over the past 9 years.
Realistically the only system I have a "pressing need" to get back up and
running is my antique PowerMac 8500/180 and the UMAX scanner I have for it,
as I want to be able to use the scanner to scan Medium and Large format
film. In addition to shooting digital, I find myself shooting a lot of film
these days, and am making the step up from 35mm to both Medium and Large
format cameras.
Zane
On Jun 5, 2009, at 4:46 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
It was back before I switched to SCSI for my PDP-11's. Even my PDP-11/44
has a SCSI controller in it, so the main system I see it being of use for
now days is the PDP-11/23 that resides in the same rack, as it only has RL01
and RL02 drives.
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.
That sounds like it'll be very handy. 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.