MicroVax II
Toby Thain
toby at telegraphics.com.au
Fri Jul 29 20:36:25 CDT 2016
On 2016-07-29 9:08 PM, Douglas Taylor wrote:
> I just got a MicroVax II in the BA123 world box chassis. I has a TK50,
> RX50, RXDQ2, but no DEQNA. I'd like to get it running an OS.
>
> The DU disks don't work, but I have a couple of Qbus SCSI controllers
> that might come in handy.
>
> Can you use those SD to SCSI convertors in this type of configuration?
> Anyone have experience with this?
>
> What OS's can I use with this hardware? NetBSD? Are versions of VMS
> available? How do you get an OS onto this system?
>
>
>
NetBSD is an option. The most recent version I've run on a MicroVAX II
(9MB) is 1.4.1, netbooted (couldn't find a netbootable distribution of
anything more recent; also a 9MB machine might not run much more recent).
You probably want to chase down a DELQA.
--Toby
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