12 Mar
2013
12 Mar
'13
6:05 p.m.
I have a system which has been talked about here available for sale.
Several list members probably know about it, and had expressed interest.
I'm trying to sell it for a friend.
The bulk of the system is in Norco, Ca, and there is a large block of
card equipment still in Ok, City.
Please make offers
http://jwstephens.com/univac3/page_01.htm
http://jwstephens.com/univac3/page_01.htm
I can supply more information on request.
thanks
Jim
12 Mar
12 Mar
8:08 p.m.
New subject: DEC Pro 380 vs VAX 8800 console
I have been reading conflicting information on these. Is the VAX 8800
console just a DEC Pro 380 with an extra real time interface card or a
modified Pro 380 ? I guess the gist is can the ones sold as 8800
consoles be used as regular Pro 380 ?
8:36 p.m.
New subject: DEC Pro 380 vs VAX 8800 console
Mine (on an 8700) was a standard 380 with an interface card installed.
-Dave
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New Kensington, PA
On Mar 12, 2013, at 11:08 PM, mc68010 <mc68010 at gmail.com> wrote:
I have been reading conflicting information on these.
Is the VAX 8800 console just a DEC Pro 380 with an extra real time interface card or a
modified Pro 380 ? I guess the gist is can the ones sold as 8800 consoles be used as
regular Pro 380 ?
9:34 p.m.
New subject: DEC Pro 380 vs VAX 8800 console
At 8:08 PM -0700 3/12/13, mc68010 wrote:
I have been reading conflicting information on these.
Is the VAX
8800 console just a DEC Pro 380 with an extra real time interface
card or a modified Pro 380 ? I guess the gist is can the ones sold
as 8800 consoles be used as regular Pro 380 ?
To make it even more confusing, I think that they first used Pro
360's. Basically it's a DEC Professional with an Interface Card, and
the Console software installed on the HD.
Zane
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8:46 p.m.
New subject: DEC Pro 380 vs VAX 8800 console
On 3/12/2013 9:34 PM, Zane H. Healy wrote:
At 8:08 PM -0700 3/12/13, mc68010 wrote:
I was just looking at this thing
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Digital-Dec-PC380-AA-Vintage-Desktop-READ-/12107912….
It's kind of pricey, ugly, and missing the monitor. Googling PC380-AA
seems to say its a VAX 8800 console. Is there anyway to use one of these
off the serial port ?
I have been reading conflicting information on
these. Is the VAX 8800
console just a DEC Pro 380 with an extra real time interface card or
a modified Pro 380 ? I guess the gist is can the ones sold as 8800
consoles be used as regular Pro 380 ?
To make it even more confusing, I think that they first used Pro
360's. Basically it's a DEC Professional with an Interface Card, and
the Console software installed on the HD.
Zane
9:03 p.m.
New subject: DEC Pro 380 vs VAX 8800 console
On 03/12/2013 11:46 PM, mc68010 wrote:
I was just looking at this thing
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Digital-Dec-PC380-AA-Vintage-Desktop-READ-/12107912….
It's kind of pricey, ugly, and missing the monitor. Googling PC380-AA
seems to say its a VAX 8800 console. Is there anyway to use one of these
off the serial port ?
I don't know offhand, but amusingly, I know that seller well. That's
a surplus place that I used to shop at every Saturday when I lived in
Maryland. I haven't been there in about twelve years, but it was
AWESOME the last time I was there. He was never really open to the
public, but a group of us would go every weekend and drop way too much coin.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
13 Mar
13 Mar
9:45 a.m.
New subject: DEC Pro 380 vs VAX 8800 console
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:08 PM, mc68010 <mc68010 at gmail.com> wrote:
I have been reading conflicting information on these.
Is the VAX 8800
console just a DEC Pro 380 with an extra real time interface card or a
modified Pro 380 ? I guess the gist is can the ones sold as 8800 consoles be
used as regular Pro 380 ?
It's a regular Pro380. You can leave the interface card in. The
software is based on P/OS, but boots up to an application that makes
it useful as a console.
If you have multiple hard drives you could swap in a fresh one and
load up P/OS or RT-11 (in the official RT-11 5.something (5.3? 5.4?)
software kit, there's an extra floppy for Pro machines, IIRC). Venix
is another option.
-ethan
2:07 p.m.
New subject: DEC Pro 380 vs VAX 8800 console
I have been reading conflicting information on these. Is the VAX 8800
console just a DEC Pro 380 with an extra real time interface card or a
modified Pro 380 ? I guess the gist is can the ones sold as 8800
consoles be used as regular Pro 380 ?
AFAIK it's a standard Pro with the (standard, but uncommon elsewhere)
Realtime I/O board in the cardcage and special softare installed.
I was given a Pro350 that I was told had been a VAX 8xxx console. The
realtiem I/O board had been removed (but was with the machine). It seems
to behave like any other Pro350.
-tony
12 Mar
12 Mar
8:48 p.m.
wow nice
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Jim Stephens <jws at jwsss.com> wrote:
I have a system which has been talked about here
available for sale.
Several list members probably know about it, and had expressed interest.
I'm trying to sell it for a friend.
The bulk of the system is in Norco, Ca, and there is a large block of card
equipment still in Ok, City.
Please make offers
http://jwstephens.com/univac3/**page_01.htm<http://jwstephens.com/univac…
http://jwstephens.com/univac3/**page_01.htm<http://jwstephens.com/univac…
I can supply more information on request.
thanks
Jim
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