WTB: Pro380, VAXstation

On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 05:13:33PM -0400, Paul Koning wrote: Well, the Pro-350 uses an F-11 CPU (same as the 11/23 and 11/24), and the Pro-380 uses a J-11 CPU (same as the 11/73). The largest architectural difference is that the J-11 supports split I&D space. As a result, the Pro-380 should be able to load 2.11BSD which, I _think_, already supports the MSCP disk controller in the Pro series (that's the nature of the patches to 2.9BSD for the Pro-350... adding support for MSCP controllers). I have both models at home, but have never taken the time to load BSD on either one. I was working on them last year, upgrading the 128K boards in my Pro-350s to 512K (remove 4164s, install 41256s, fiddle jumpers), and was beginning to play with my Pro-380 when the PSU died. The Pro-380, BTW, was formerly our 8530 console. When Software Results closed, the 8530 was about the only CPU I didn't rescue (figuring I'd never have access to 3-phase at home, and I already had a VAX-BI machine that ran off of 110VAC). I wish I knew where that console interface ended up - I had no idea at the time there was an IEEE-488 interface as part of it. -ethan -- Ethan Dicks, A-130-S Current South Pole Weather at 15-Apr-2004 23:50 Z South Pole Station PSC 468 Box 400 Temp -60.2 F (-51.2 C) Windchill -97.3 F (-71.90 C) APO AP 96598 Wind 9 kts Grid 019 Barometer 682.3 mb (10540 ft) Ethan.Dicks(a)amanda.spole.gov http://penguincentral.com/penguincentral.html