18 Jan
1999
18 Jan
'99
2:38 p.m.
Thanks to all that responded to my original message.
Quick follow up to my original message. I was able
to go back to the place I got my PRO380 from and get the VT201
and was able to boot up the system and play around a bit. Quite
interesting - It's running P/OS and has a DCL based command interpreter
with various commands. It also seems to have FORTRAN and MACRO11 installed.
I'm going to spend some time playing around and see what else it has
installed. Thanks to all that responded to my message.
Kirk
"Kirk Davis" <kbd(a)ndx.net> wrote:
Hi all - I'm new to the mailing list and have
just started
collecting various pieces of retro computer paraphernalia. Had
some fun today at the local salvage yard prying open a VAX 8800
looking for interesting bits.
Did manage to
get the console. Various people have told me that
this is most likely a PRO350 or PRO380 (PDP!!!!). Looking inside it's
got a RD52 and a set of floppies along with the associated controller
cards and the main board. It appears to be in good shape - when I
turn on the power, it goes though it's self test and appears to boot
from the hard disk.
>1. What are my options are far as os'? I'm told that it most likely
>has a subset of RT11 on the drive. Is this my only option or is it
>possible to install other PDP11 based os' on this system? >2. The back panel has a serial port and a monitor
port (along with
>what appears to be a printer and AUI network port). There is no
>direct keyboard input that I can see. I connected a serial terminal
>to the system and tried various baud rates and parity selections
>(300-19200, 8-n-1 & 7-e,1) and have been unable to get the system to
>respond. I'd assume some sort of signon banner at boot but since this
>was a dedicated console for a vax it's limited to the output only on
>the other monitor port? Maybe someone can enlighten me....