Introducing myself and VAXstation 3100 help needed

Hi Everyone, Jay West was kind enough to point me to this list and I just wanted to introduce myself before I start begging for help. :-) I started out life coding on a CDC Cyber-170 and from there moved up through the TRS-80 model I before finally taking the plunge and purchasing a very early A

Vaxstation 3100 - I have console access

Hi everyone. I'm hoping that one of the VAX experts out there can help me figure out how to get my 3100 booting. I managed to cobble together the necessary cabling and was able to run a "TEST 50" from the serial console. Unfortunately my Google-fu isn't sufficient to help me figure out what the r

Re: Vaxstation 3100 - I have console access

Peter, Thanks for the email. My challenge is that this machine has a floppy and a SCSI drive (both appear to be cabled correctly when I open things up) and yet neither show up when I do a "show device" from the console. >>> show device VMS/VMB ULTRIXADDRDEVTYP NUMBYTES RM/FX WP DE

Re: Vaxstation 3100 - I have console access

Peter, I confirmed that there is a NCR5380 chip on the daughterboard and that everything was connected. Still no joy. The one thing I'm wondering is this. If you look at the attached picture below from http://home.iae.nl/users/pb0aia/vax/vs3khw.html, you will see there is a 40-ish pin EPROM (?)

Re: Vaxstation 3100 - I have console access

Thanks JBG! Thanks, Bryan On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 1:58 PM, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > Hi Bryan, > > On Thu, 2016-02-18 11:08:28 -0500, Bryan C. Everly < > br...@bceassociates.com> wrote: > > I confirmed that there is a NCR5380 chip on the daughterboard and that >

Re: Looking for a small fast VAX development machine

Greg, I applaud your goal. I'm trying to resurrect my 3100 so I can try and keep this architecture alive on OpenBSD. Thanks, Bryan On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 1:51 PM, Greg Stark wrote: > I work on Postgres and we have always claimed to support VAX machines > but have the caveat "Code support ex

Re: vintage computers in active use

I did work in UNIX on a Series-1 in the telecom space. It probably still is in use. About like an AS/400. They were built like tanks and never seemed to break. Thanks, Bryan On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 12:53 PM, Jay West wrote: > Brent wrote... > -- > The report said that the Departm

SunOS 4

Hi, I have really fond memories of this operating system (from before the SVR4 Solaris days). It was the first UNIX I used (and I'm still a big BSD fan). (Not sure what the protocol is here for asking something like this so if I run afoul of a copyright policy or something, just tell me to stop

CYBER-171

Wondering if anyone out there has such a machine running. It was literally the first computer system I used (at Indiana State University back in the 70's). I had some real fun doing FORTRAN and Pascal programming on that thing. Thanks, Bryan

Re: Pictures from the GA warehouse, take 2...

Todd, I'd love one (or maybe two to get working parts) of the VAXstation 4000 boxes. I come to Atlanta about every other week but I'd also be happy to pay for shipping. Is there a possibility I could work something out? Thanks, Bryan On Sat, Jun 25, 2016 at 5:32 PM, Todd Killingsworth wrote: