Finally got around to looking inside the MicroVax II I acquired. It's in
the short squat rolling enclosure (BA123?) and has the following boards
M7606-AA KA630-AA Q microVAX II with 1-Mbyte, floating point,
time of
year clock, boot/diagnostic ROM (Q22-bus)
(Also M7606-AC, -AF, -AH, -AL, -AP, -AS
Also M7606-EC, -EE, -EF, -EP, -ES, -ET, -EU, -EV
Also M7606-ZC, -ZF, -ZP, -ZS)
M7608-BA MS630-BB Q 4-Mbyte RAM for microVAX II (Q22-bus)
(Also M7608-BC, -BE, -BH, -BL, -BP, -BR, -BS,
-BT,
-BU, -BV, -YC, -YF, -YS, -ZC, -ZF,
-ZS)
M7608-BA MS630-BB Q 4-Mbyte RAM for microVAX II (Q22-bus)
(Also M7608-BC, -BE, -BH, -BL, -BP, -BR, -BS,
-BT,
-BU, -BV, -YC, -YF, -YS, -ZC, -ZF,
-ZS)
M7196 TSV05 Q TSV05 controller for Q/Q22 bus
M3107 DHQ11-M Q 8-line async MUX module, DMA, Q-22
M3107 DHQ11-M Q 8-line async MUX module, DMA, Q-22
M7546 TQK50-AA Q TMSCP controller for TK50 tape unit
M7555 RQDX3 Q Winchester and floppy disk controller
(RX50/RD50-54/RD31/RD32)
It has a drive apparently loaded with some version of VMS but I have to
put together a console cable to find out. Then of course, the big trick
will be the fact that I don't have VMS on tape or the passwords to the
machine itself. :( And I can't call the company that gave it to me
because several layers of red-tape were bypassed to get it to me for free.
Hmmm...a friend of mine says I should find a variant of Unix for it but I
used to be big into VAXen (at least on the user end) and having a VMS
machine amuses me.
Thoughts? Suggestions?
Anthony Clifton - WireHead