Digital DEC 3000

[Jonathan Stone]

 Hello Rob,

If you end up parting this out to others who have dying motherboards or PSUs:
How much RAM does it have? I bought a 3000/700 last week on eBay, it's supposed to arrive this week.

For what it's worth: I have about a dozen Turbochannel machines that I'm slowly reviving, to work on NetBSD drivers for FDDI and graphics/console support. I've got one of every TC framebuffer (excluding the Kubota/Denali, and the framebuffer with a port to drive an early-90s flat panel). That's partly why there are so few left on eBay at reasonable prices.


It anyone has a PMTCE extender box that they're wiling to part with, I'd pay the price resellers list. (They're all long sold). 
 The PMTCE only supports a single TC device, but it ets you install a single 3-slot board, but only consumes one slot on the host. I have two or three of the adapter boards. Rob Jarrett wants to keep his, after the labour of love to restore it.



     On Monday, April 26, 2021, 11:12:18 AM PDT, Rob Laz via cctech <cctech at classiccmp.org> wrote:  
 
 
  Digital DEC 3000

I have an old DEC 3000 unit that I no longer have time or space for, and 
was wondering what to do with it.

The rear plate shows PE42A-B9, CPU KN17, DEC 3000 600S and the ROM has a 
sticker showing Dec 1989.

I have a video cable but not a suitable monitor so can't fully test it 
but I think it is booting up OK as the diagnostic LED's on the rear show 
11011101 or DD in hex which I think means it has booted OK to console.

It has been running in the past and my last efforts were probably 10+ 
years ago when I installed VMS version 7 with a guest licence.

I also have a few peripherals including a SZ12 disk unit, LK201 
keyboard, circular mouse and various SCSI and video cables.

It has been stored in my garage which is not totally sealed so it has 
suffered a little corrosion to the rear connectors but it looks recoverable.

All thoughts and opinions welcome.