2 Apr
2019
2 Apr
'19
12:20 p.m.
can anyone help this guy out?
From: Benjamin Carlson <bcarlson at northpointdefense.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2019 9:12 AM
Subject: Fwd: Re: MicroVAX
Greta, my name is Ben Carlson and I am attempting to restore an old DEC MicroVAX II for
the University of Oklahoma's
collections department (see email below, Kerry is their curator). At this point, I believe
I can get the hardware
operating but I have no operating system for itas the Air Force insisted on destroying the
hard drive. I have been able
to replace the hard drive and the system has a tape drive and CD-ROM.
Do you have any idea where I might find the OS? Also, any documentation would be great as
well.
Thanks for your help!
Benjamin Carlson, PhD, CISSP
Senior Research Engineer
North Point Defense
Rome, NY
(315)571-0221 x 1010
2 Apr
2 Apr
12:39 p.m.
I will reply to email.
On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 5:21 PM +0100, "Al Kossow via cctalk" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org> wrote:
can anyone help this guy out?
From: Benjamin Carlson
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2019 9:12 AM
Subject: Fwd: Re: MicroVAX
Greta, my name is Ben Carlson and I am attempting to restore an old DEC MicroVAX II for
the University of Oklahoma's
collections department (see email below, Kerry is their curator). At this point, I believe
I can get the hardware
operating but I have no operating system for itas the Air Force insisted on destroying the
hard drive. I have been able
to replace the hard drive and the system has a tape drive and CD-ROM.
Do you have any idea where I might find the OS? Also, any documentation would be great as
well.
Thanks for your help!
Benjamin Carlson, PhD, CISSP
Senior Research Engineer
North Point Defense
Rome, NY
(315)571-0221 x 1010
1:01 p.m.
It depends on which OS he actually wants to run. Some one recently posted
info on old versions of VMS on the VMS Usenet Newsgroup which might be
appropriate.
Otherwise, as I am sure Rob knows there is a lot of stuff on Vaxhaven
Dave.
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Subject: Re: MV II help
I will reply to email.
On Tue, Apr 2, 2019 at 5:21 PM +0100, "Al Kossow via cctalk"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
can anyone help this guy out?
From: Benjamin Carlson
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2019 9:12 AM
Subject: Fwd: Re: MicroVAX
Greta, my name is Ben Carlson and I am attempting to restore an old DEC
MicroVAX II for the University of Oklahoma's collections department (see
email below, Kerry is their curator). At this point, I believe I can get
the
hardware operating but I have no operating system for
itas the Air Force
insisted on destroying the hard drive. I have been able to replace the
hard
drive and the system has a tape drive and CD-ROM.
Do you have any idea where I might find the OS? Also, any documentation
would be great as well.
Thanks for your help!
Benjamin Carlson, PhD, CISSP
Senior Research Engineer
North Point Defense
Rome, NY
(315)571-0221 x 1010
12:44 p.m.
On 4/2/19 12:20 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
can anyone help this guy out?
From: Benjamin Carlson <bcarlson at northpointdefense.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2019 9:12 AM
Subject: Fwd: Re: MicroVAX
Greta, my name is Ben Carlson and I am attempting to restore an old DEC MicroVAX II
for the University of Oklahoma's
collections department (see email below, Kerry is their curator). At this point, I
believe I can get the hardware
operating but I have no operating system for itas the Air Force insisted on destroying
the hard drive. I have been able
to replace the hard drive and the system has a tape drive and CD-ROM.
Do you have any idea where I might find the OS? Also, any documentation would be great as
well.
Thanks for your help!
Benjamin Carlson, PhD, CISSP
Senior Research Engineer
North Point Defense
Rome, NY
(315)571-0221 x 1010
A number of choices for OS. OpenBSD or NetBSD should still work
depending on the actual configuration of the system and VMS still
has a hobbyist license.
bill
1:27 p.m.
On 4/2/19 9:44 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
A number of choices for OS. OpenBSD or NetBSD should
still work
depending on the actual configuration of the system and VMS still
has a hobbyist license.
PDP11s were used in various places around the USAF. I duplicated a
bunch of RX50 floppies for the 11s used at Warner-Robbins as part of the
setup for maintaining C130s. I probably have the images kicking around
in case someone has a C130 parked in their garage waiting for service.
--Chuck
3:44 p.m.
On 4/2/19 1:27 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 4/2/19 9:44 AM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
Ummm... That's MV II or MicroVAX-II, not PDP-11.
Of course, I do have PDP-11's running here but no C-130's parked
around the place. Was impressed with the improvements in the J
model in 2009, however. :-)
bill
A number of choices for OS. OpenBSD or NetBSD
should still work
depending on the actual configuration of the system and VMS still
has a hobbyist license.
PDP11s were used in various places around the USAF. I duplicated a
bunch of RX50 floppies for the 11s used at Warner-Robbins as part of the
setup for maintaining C130s. I probably have the images kicking around
in case someone has a C130 parked in their garage waiting for service.
4:08 p.m.
On 4/2/19 12:44 PM, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
Ummm... That's MV II or MicroVAX-II, not PDP-11.
Of course, I do have PDP-11's running here but no C-130's parked
around the place. Was impressed with the improvements in the J
model in 2009, however. :-)
Could be--I generally don't pay much attention to content, but could
well have been anything DEC-ish. Just that it took RS50 floppies and I
know what it was used for. But MV sounds better.
--Chuck
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