18 Aug
2001
18 Aug
'01
7:19 p.m.
I bought a pallet with some VAXStations at auction and I'm going to sell
several of them on Ebay to raise funds to cover the cost of storage for the
rest of my collection. However, before I do that, and at the risk of
ruining my market, there are three types of systems available:
VS3100/M76 16MB Mono, w/ RZ23
VS3100/M76 16MB Color (8pln, not the SPX), w/RZ23
VS4000/M60 24MB Color, w/RZ24
If you want one, make me an offer by midnight pacific time thursday (I'm
planning to start listing them Friday). Note I will expect you to cover the
cost of packing and shipping it which shouldn't be all that much (say 30
lbs from Sunnyvale, CA 94087). Note that I'll balance the offer against the
hard luck story that comes with it :-) So if you have a good story that
will help your cause. I will include an MMJ cable with a male DB25 adapter
(either DTE or DCE your choice).
No, none of them came with the funky SCSI cable that you need for a VS3100.
I've also got a VS3100 M30? (KA42) with an RX23 that is available for $10 +
postage (it has 8MB and no internal hard drives)
--Chuck
19 Aug
19 Aug
7:42 a.m.
New subject: what is a vxt2000?
Just schlepped one home from the MIT flea....I dont even know how much mem
it has.
I have a copied a xvt2000.sys image file (4.8megs)....now what? just rename
it [vxt-MAC].sys and boot from there?
what kind of graphics output is supported there? The memory card has three
empty simm slots....duh.
In front of the mem slot is a digital type scsi plug....any harddisk
attachment in there?
A note says F2 brings up a setup menu? Can this thingy setup in TCPIP
without a mopserver? Doubt THAT!
Thanks for the help.
Fred
9:23 a.m.
New subject: what is a vxt2000?
On 19 Aug, Fred deBros wrote:
Just schlepped one home from the MIT flea....I dont
even know how much mem
it has.
It will print the amount of memory at startup.
I have a copied a xvt2000.sys image file
(4.8megs)....now what? just rename
it [vxt-MAC].sys and boot from there?
[vxt-MAC].SYS (or just "vxt"?)
If you use some *ix to boot the beast, just run mopd(8) with the "-d"
option.
what kind of graphics output is supported there?
I don't know what other types of graphics are possible, but mv VXT2000+
SPX uses 1280x1024@72Hz, 8 bit planes with sync on green on the 3W3
connector.
The memory card has three empty simm slots....duh.
....and 2MB on the memory card itself. With the 4MB on the main PCB you
will have 6MB. You can use normal 4MB PS/2 SIMMs with parity to expand
the memory up to 18MB.
In front of the mem slot is a digital type scsi
plug....any harddisk
attachment in there?
No. That plug is for an obscure 3D option.
A note says F2 brings up a setup menu?
F3 when
the software ist loaded.
Can this thingy setup in TCPIP without a mopserver?
Doubt THAT!
Yes! The VXT2000 is the one and only VAX (yes, there is a VAX inside!)
that can be netbooted via bootp/DHCP and tftp. But I recommend mop, as
mop loads the bootimage _much_ faster. When the VXT is powered on it
tries to mop-boot, if that fails it tries bootp/DHCP and restarts with
mop if that fails too.
From my /etc/bootptab:
vxt:\
ht=ethernet:\
ha=08002b123456:\
ip=192.168.1.55:\
sm=255.255.255.0:\
bf=/mop/vxt:
And the bootimage is:
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3 Dec 29 2000 /tftpboot/mop/08002b123456.SYS -> vxt
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 5069824 Dec 29 2000 /tftpboot/mop/vxt
As the are not much fonts in the boot image, I recommend to run a font
server...
--
tschuess,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz
8:44 a.m.
New subject: CComp alert: Ed Roberts
Oops, I was a little busy today, meant to post this the
moment I saw it:
Big photo and Article on Ed Roberts on the front page
of the 'Money&Business' section of today's
Sunday New York Times.
"The PC? That Old Thing?" by Steve Lohr
also featured: "How the Computer Became Personal"
The follow up of the article continues with
general history; sketchpad, etc, etc...
Lookin good, Ed!
John A.
see: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/19/technology/19COMP.html
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