[HECnet] Bringing up a MicroVAX 3100-80

[Supratim Sanyal]

On 4/1/20 7:26 AM, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
> On 3/31/2020 4:42 PM, Supratim Sanyal wrote:
>>
>> folks,
>>
>> ummm ... not sure how to sugarcoat this, but Steve found the root 
>> problem:
>>
>> the hard disk in the MicroVAX 3100 model 80 has OpenVMS Alpha 
>> installed on it.
>>
>> Best,
>> Supratim
>>
>
> 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
>
:)

An image backup is taken. The LMF db has been saved. It doesn't have 
much - Pathworks and UCX.

  License Management Facility  V1.2

  License Database File:          DUA0:[000000]LMF$LICENSE.LDB;1
  Created on:              29-DEC-1997
  Created by user:          SYSTEM
  Created by LMF Version:      V1.1

  -----------------------------------
  DW-MOTIF              DEC
  NET-APP-SUP-150          DEC
  OPENVMS-ALPHA              DEC
  OPENVMS-ALPHA              DEC
  OPENVMS-ALPHA-ADL          DEC
  PWLMXXXCA06.00              DEC
  PWLMXXXCA06.00              DEC
  PWLMXXXFP05.00              DEC
  PWXXWINAT07.00              DEC
  PWXXWINAT07.00              DEC
  UCX                  DEC



>
> John H. Reinhardt
>
>
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