Got a MicroVax II - Configuration

From: Wirehead Prime <wirehead_at_retrocomputing.com>
Date: Sat Aug 15 14:58:53 1998

Finally got around to looking inside the MicroVax II I acquired. It's in
the short squat rolling enclosure (BA123?) and has the following boards

M7606-AA KA630-AA Q microVAX II with 1-Mbyte, floating point,
time of
                            year clock, boot/diagnostic ROM (Q22-bus)
                            (Also M7606-AC, -AF, -AH, -AL, -AP, -AS
                            Also M7606-EC, -EE, -EF, -EP, -ES, -ET, -EU, -EV
                            Also M7606-ZC, -ZF, -ZP, -ZS)

M7608-BA MS630-BB Q 4-Mbyte RAM for microVAX II (Q22-bus)
                            (Also M7608-BC, -BE, -BH, -BL, -BP, -BR, -BS,
-BT,
                                       -BU, -BV, -YC, -YF, -YS, -ZC, -ZF,
-ZS)

M7608-BA MS630-BB Q 4-Mbyte RAM for microVAX II (Q22-bus)
                            (Also M7608-BC, -BE, -BH, -BL, -BP, -BR, -BS,
-BT,
                                       -BU, -BV, -YC, -YF, -YS, -ZC, -ZF,
-ZS)

M7196 TSV05 Q TSV05 controller for Q/Q22 bus

M3107 DHQ11-M Q 8-line async MUX module, DMA, Q-22

M3107 DHQ11-M Q 8-line async MUX module, DMA, Q-22

M7546 TQK50-AA Q TMSCP controller for TK50 tape unit

M7555 RQDX3 Q Winchester and floppy disk controller
                            (RX50/RD50-54/RD31/RD32)

It has a drive apparently loaded with some version of VMS but I have to
put together a console cable to find out. Then of course, the big trick
will be the fact that I don't have VMS on tape or the passwords to the
machine itself. :( And I can't call the company that gave it to me
because several layers of red-tape were bypassed to get it to me for free.

Hmmm...a friend of mine says I should find a variant of Unix for it but I
used to be big into VAXen (at least on the user end) and having a VMS
machine amuses me.

Thoughts? Suggestions?

Anthony Clifton - WireHead
Received on Sat Aug 15 1998 - 14:58:53 BST

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