MicroVAX II or PDP 11?

From: Peter Joules <pjoules_at_coleg-powys.ac.uk>
Date: Mon Sep 15 02:58:19 1997

I have just got a 'new' computer over the weekend. It was advertised as
a MicroVAX II with 2xRA81, 8Mb, and tape drive.

It has VMS 5.x on one of the RA81s and Ultrix on the other. It looks
like the picture in the Digital manuals of a MicroVAX II 630 (tall rack
unit with RA81 at top and bottom with the processor modules in between),
however it was only when I got it home that I saw the badge above the
On/Off switch which says "Digital PDP11/83".

When VMS starts it says VAX/VMS Version 5.x (can't remember the minor
version number) and when Ultrix starts it reports that it is running on:
MicroVAX II with FPU

What have I got?

By the way, the date stamped on all of the cases and labels is in 1988
if that helps. Can anyone tell me anything about it?

-- 
Regards   
Pete     
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