27 May
1999
27 May
'99
5:23 p.m.
Hello,
I recently acquired a VAXstation 3100 from a local pharmaceutical
company that was trashing it. Being a sucker for old computers, and
having always been intrigued by VMS, i've messed around with it.
I know incredibly little about VMS, and have never encountered it
before yesterday, but what I have been able to figure out is that it's
running VAX/VMS 5.4, it has 16Mb of RAM, (2) 212Mb hard drives, and an
RX23 disk drive. Does anyone have any references or links that would
be helpful in setting this thing up? Any information would be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
-paul
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paul(a)paul.dragontear.org [a paradigm of a paramount failure]
27 May
27 May
5:46 p.m.
At 22:23 27-05-1999 -0400, you wrote:
I know incredibly little about VMS, and have never
encountered it
before yesterday, but what I have been able to figure out is that it's
running VAX/VMS 5.4, it has 16Mb of RAM, (2) 212Mb hard drives, and an
RX23 disk drive. Does anyone have any references or links that would
be helpful in setting this thing up? Any information would be greatly
appreciated.
5.4 is pretty old. The current version is 7.x.
The VS3100's will also run Ultrix (DEC's awful Unix port) and NetBSD (A
much better choice, IMO).
Info on the hardware can be found at:
http://anacin.nsc.vcu.edu/~jim/mvax/mvax_faq.html
Info on NetBSD can be had from www.netbsd.org
Best of luck. Those are nice little machines.
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6:44 p.m.
Hello,
I recently acquired a VAXstation 3100 from a local pharmaceutical
company that was trashing it. Being a sucker for old computers, and
having always been intrigued by VMS, i've messed around with it.
I know incredibly little about VMS, and have never encountered it
before yesterday, but what I have been able to figure out is that it's
running VAX/VMS 5.4, it has 16Mb of RAM, (2) 212Mb hard drives, and an
RX23 disk drive. Does anyone have any references or links that would
be helpful in setting this thing up? Any information would be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
-paul
--
paul(a)paul.dragontear.org [a paradigm of a paramount failure]
Ooo. Nice machine, especially for free. One source of good info (and links)
is www.montagar.com. They're the place to go to get a hobbiest licence for
VMS and a bunch of layered products (applications, usually) and they also
have links to a lot of good info sites.
--
Jim Strickland
jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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