8 Oct
2009
8 Oct
'09
10:05 a.m.
On Thu, 8 Oct 2009, Ethan Dicks wrote:
My primary PDP-11 started life as my first working VAX. One of my winter
projects will be putting it back together. It is still in pieces after our
moves. I also need to retrive my PDP-11/44 from my parents garage still.
I *might* have a set or two of CPU boards (I don't remember and I have a
lot of MV II sets), but I've never seen a MV-1 in person. I wish I could
have rescued the VAX-11/730 Paxton had.
?This stuff is
for the most part worth rescuing. ? ?The MicroVAX I and II
can be converted into a PDP-11 if so desired.
I was going to do that myself, but I recently came into a fully
working original-model (KDF11) MicroPDP-11, so I'm going to focus on
that now (it has 2x MSV11PK for 512K of memory, an RQDX1, and an RD51
(10MB) - at least until I pull some newer cards/disks off the shelf). ?I think
MicroVAX I's are moderately rare.
?Though since this is in MA, they might not be back there.
They were uncommon but not unknown here in Ohio... I got one from a
former employer, and another that was DEC-upgraded to a MicroVAX-II
(for something like $17,000) when those were new. Since then, though,
I've only ever run across one other. Lots of MicroVAX-IIs. This reminds me that I still need to take some time to
image my
MicroVMS distro floppies. I'm sure they aren't unique, but I'm not
sure where I'd get uVMS from the 'net (and ISTR, there are no versions
of full VMS that fit on an RD51 or RD52).
This is something I for one would like to see preserved. I have a
VAXstation II/RC that ran MicroVMS.
Zane