MicroVAX I

[Adrian Graham]

I know speed wise this was the slowest VAX of the day, but mine came from a
former DEC engineer and was used as a CAD station - it had a socking great
Tektronix monitor with it that's now at TNMoC in Bletchley Park. Or at
least I hope it still is.

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On Mon, 13 Aug 2018 at 16:48, Zane Healy via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:

>
> > On Aug 13, 2018, at 8:22 AM, Douglas Taylor via cctalk <
> cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 8/12/2018 11:36 PM, robertbeauchamp33--- via cctalk wrote:
> >> My mother is moving and her spouse has a MicroVax I he bought new back
> in 1984 for some crazy amount. I don’t see this model listed in your chart?
> Can you tell me if there is any value to this machine? He also has two
> original monitors.
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > Could be quite interesting to this community depending on how it has
> been stored since 1984 and is it complete and functional. Don't have any
> expectations for hard disks to work.  What models are the monitors?
> VT100's?  Do you have the keyboards?  Any software?
> >
> > It is an antique and the condition, along with what's inside of the box
> determine how much interest there will be.
> >
> > As far as Vax and MicroVax systems the MicroVax I was probably the
> slowest of them all, and least capable.  Their selling point was that they
> didn't need an entire room, it could be placed in a normal office
> environment.
> >
> > Doug
>
> Something that comes to my mind, what chassis were available for the
> MicroVAX I?  I’m far more familiar with the MicroVAX II.  While
> traditionally I’ve preferred the BA123 chassis, I’m rather partial to the
> BA23’s these days, as they take up about half the space.
>
> Good point on the monitor question, I was trying to figure out how/why a
> MicroVAX I would have two monitors.  Two terminals makes perfect sense.
>
> Zane
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