A new old thing
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Ebay. A place in Vancouver.
Perhaps a more revealing question; Why did you get it???? I have fond memories of using PDP-9's and 10's with paper tape storage, but I can't for the life of me figure out why I would want one today!
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I think I remember when those were "the new hot"…or was it a VAXstation 3100…probably… Wow…what VMS are you sticking on it?
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p CodeProject MVP for 2010 - who'd'a thunk it!
I worked for DEC for 17 years. First I programmed in Pascal on a contract, then I did customer support for the VMS operating system for 9 years, moving to support of programming languages (FORTRAN was my main focus), and finally I went back to programming. Did 7 years of development on their automated backup system (in C and C++). I loved VMS...the most secure operating system in the world. Have fun!
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I knew the fellow who owned that plate.
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I knew the fellow who owned that plate.
Oh really? That happens to be my license plate and I don't know you. /ravi
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Oh really? That happens to be my license plate and I don't know you. /ravi
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Must be a (past) tense thing. A co-worker named Mike had Massachusetts license plate "VAX-VMS" > 20 years ago. He allowed it to expire which freed it up for the next person to request it. rgrds, [*Edit: not sure if the "-" was on the plate *]
modified on Monday, September 27, 2010 2:00 PM
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Whoo hoo!! My MicroVAX 3100 just arrived! :cool: A label says it was manufactured in "FEB 90". Now I have to make sure it works and get some disks for it. And an adapter to connect it to the network... And install VMS...
I used to work in R&D for a software company that was one of DEC's largest OEMs at the time. DEC invited two of us up to their research center in Atlanta to preview the MicroVAX before it was unveiled to the public. At the time it was so much slower than the 750s and 780s that we elected not to sell it.
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With the === A L P H A === processor. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOhhhhhhhhhh.
A MicroVAX doesn't have an Alpha chip (at least this one doesn't). Alpha came out in 1992.
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Perhaps a more revealing question; Why did you get it???? I have fond memories of using PDP-9's and 10's with paper tape storage, but I can't for the life of me figure out why I would want one today!
Melting Away www.deals-house.com www.innovative--concepts.com
Because it's there (well, here now). This is just a little one -- desktop-PC-size.
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I should be able to put OpenVMS 7.3 on it. Once it has disks and I get media... etc. etc. etc.
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Must be a (past) tense thing. A co-worker named Mike had Massachusetts license plate "VAX-VMS" > 20 years ago. He allowed it to expire which freed it up for the next person to request it. rgrds, [*Edit: not sure if the "-" was on the plate *]
modified on Monday, September 27, 2010 2:00 PM