A Microvax 3100 or VAXStation 3100 is a decent machine. They are SCSI
based so you can fairly easily get disk drives for them. There are MANY
different models, from the original 3100-10 (somewhere around 2 VUPs I
think) to the 3100-96 (3100-98) at something like 38 VUPs (38 x the
speed of the original VAX 780 on your desktop!). Generally speaking the
3100 is a good hobbyist machine, as it's fairly flexible, and if you're
not interested in getting involved with Qbus, etc. it makes life
easier.If you just want a single user machine, it should be fine.
VAXstation models offer an internal "frame buffer" (graphics card) while
MicroVAX 3100 have serial ports for terminals or connection to a PC comm
port.
There's also the slightly smaller MicroVAX 2000, kind-of in a square-ish
box, and significantly slower (0.9 VUPs). Not SCSI compatible, really.
If available, I'd stick with a 3100.
CD-ROM drive is a good thing to have for loading software.
Hope this helps.
- Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-admin(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org]
On Behalf Of Ron Hudson
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 12:33 AM
To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Still pineing for my own VMS machine
On Tuesday 04 June 2002 09:09 pm, you wrote:
There's a couple MicroVAX 3100 and VAXstation
3100's on Ebay right now
that have very poor descriptions, and no photos, so
they'll probably
go cheap. Shipping will probably be more than the winning bid :)
There are some boxes marked like that at Weird Stuff, back in the asis
area. sorta desktop pentium sized, floppy, perhaps a cdrom.. I'l havta
go look at them again. they want about $10 to $30 for those..
Good??