DECstation firmware archive?

emanuel stiebler emu at e-bbes.com
Sat Aug 4 05:26:00 CDT 2018


On 2018-08-03 18:47, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
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> On 08/03/2018 01:53 PM, Glen Slick via cctalk wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 3, 2018 at 2:26 AM, Jan-Benedict Glaw via cctalk
>> <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>>> If it's of interest, I'd probably add a number of VAXstation dumps for
>>> several machines (3100, 4000, VS II GPX, VXT).
>> One interesting thing about MicroVAX 3100 firmware is that the M10/20
>> and the M10e/20e motherboards are the same (as far as I know) as the
>> InfoServer 100 and 150 motherboards, just with different firmware. In
>> some situations an InfoServer may be more useful than a MicroVAX 3100.
>> They can be converted by replacing the firmware.
> 
> Has anybody ever tried dis-assembling the 3100 ROM to
> modify it to boot from bigger disks?

20 year ago, somebody made a patched version which didn't have the 1gb
limit ...

look in the usenet archives, vms group


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