31 Jul
2016
31 Jul
'16
11:27 a.m.
On 7/31/2016 2:44 AM, Graham Reid wrote:
The company I worked for in 1989 had three
hand-me-down MicroVax II from
the US parent.
They were originally a PDP11/73 box, which had been converted.
They ran VMS 5.5-2, all had DEQNA, with no problems that I remember. They
were just networked, it wasn't a cluster.
The DEQNA may have been *unsupported* on 5.5, but it seeded to work OK.
I still have one system, and bits of the others. Failing ESDI drives put
them to the back of the garage.
I do have a replacement ESDI drive, and a Q-bus SCSI controller, so when i
get time (ha!), I'll resurrect it.
Regards, Graham
Graham;
Do you remember if the networking software was part of VMS 5.5 or was it
a third party? I seem to remember third party TCPIP software,
Multiware, etc.
Doug