[HECnet] Bringing up a MicroVAX 3100-80

[John H. Reinhardt]

On 3/31/2020 4:42 PM, Supratim Sanyal wrote:
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> folks,
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> ummm ... not sure how to sugarcoat this, but Steve found the root problem:
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> the hard disk in the MicroVAX 3100 model 80 has OpenVMS Alpha installed on it.
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> Best,
> Supratim
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That's a pretty neat trick.  Are you still saving the disk contents?  Harvesting Alpha PAKS from the LMF database is also worthwhile.  Wanna ship the drive to Texas? I'll hook it up to my DS10 and see what comes off ;-P


John H. Reinhardt