Restoring a VAXstation 3500

From: Rick Murphy <rick_at_rickmurphy.net>
Date: Mon May 10 17:24:01 2004

At 01:21 PM 5/10/2004, John Allain wrote:
> > I have a MV-III with a DEQNA interface and RQDX3 w/RD54,
> > and a MOP boot with all filesystems *and* swap on remote NFS
> > partitions is considerably faster than running on the RD54.
>
>My impression is that in order of performance it goes MFM -> DSSI
>-> SDI and that the vS3500 was considered a performance machine,
>leading to the 3520 and '40. (going out on a limb now) I would actually
>be surprised if DEC ever shipped a vS3500 with MFM drives.
>Perhaps TMaC's system was customised by a prior user?

It's the latter - a VAX 3500 in a BA123 into which I installed my old
GPX card set.

Some other answers about the system - it does have a RQDX3. It boots
off of floppy (RX50) currently and did boot the RD54 from my other VAX.
The "RX22" mistake was mine - it sounds like a common 1.2 Mb floppy
drive might just work as a replacement - this would allow NetBSD floppy
boot at least.
         -Rick
Received on Mon May 10 2004 - 17:24:01 BST