Still pineing for my own VMS machine

From: Bob Lafleur <bob_lafleur_at_technologist.com>
Date: Tue Jun 4 23:39:38 2002

A Microvax 3100 or VAXStation 3100 is a decent machine. They are SCSI
based so you can fairly easily get disk drives for them. There are MANY
different models, from the original 3100-10 (somewhere around 2 VUPs I
think) to the 3100-96 (3100-98) at something like 38 VUPs (38 x the
speed of the original VAX 780 on your desktop!). Generally speaking the
3100 is a good hobbyist machine, as it's fairly flexible, and if you're
not interested in getting involved with Qbus, etc. it makes life
easier.If you just want a single user machine, it should be fine.
VAXstation models offer an internal "frame buffer" (graphics card) while
MicroVAX 3100 have serial ports for terminals or connection to a PC comm
port.

There's also the slightly smaller MicroVAX 2000, kind-of in a square-ish
box, and significantly slower (0.9 VUPs). Not SCSI compatible, really.
If available, I'd stick with a 3100.

CD-ROM drive is a good thing to have for loading software.

Hope this helps.

   - Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org]
On Behalf Of Ron Hudson
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 12:33 AM
To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Still pineing for my own VMS machine


On Tuesday 04 June 2002 09:09 pm, you wrote:
> There's a couple MicroVAX 3100 and VAXstation 3100's on Ebay right now

> that have very poor descriptions, and no photos, so they'll probably
> go cheap. Shipping will probably be more than the winning bid :)

There are some boxes marked like that at Weird Stuff, back in the asis
area. sorta desktop pentium sized, floppy, perhaps a cdrom.. I'l havta
go look at them again. they want about $10 to $30 for those..

Good??
Received on Tue Jun 04 2002 - 23:39:38 BST