Got a MicroVax II - Configuration

From: Kevin McQuiggin <mcquiggi_at_sfu.ca>
Date: Sat Aug 15 17:01:19 1998

Hi:

If you don't know the password to the system account under VMS, this isn't
much of a problem. Contact me on email for the bypass procedure.

At 02:58 PM 98/08/15 -0500, you wrote:
>
>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
>
> <snip>
>
>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.

NetBSD would be good for this machine. I run it on my Microvax II.

Kevin


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Kevin McQuiggin VE7ZD
mcquiggi_at_sfu.ca
Received on Sat Aug 15 1998 - 17:01:19 BST

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