On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 11:36 PM, robertbeauchamp33--- via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > My mother is moving and her spouse has a MicroVax I he bought new back in > 1984 for some crazy amount. I don’t see this model listed in your chart? Can > you tell me if there is any value to this machine? He also has two original > monitors.
There is some value, since it's in a BA23 and _is_ a VAX, even as slow as can be. They are somewhat uncommon because they were only available for a couple of years unlike most other DEC machines. Having used one in the mid-80s when they were brand new (and $10,000), they are quite slow and painful and limited to, I think, various versions of MicroVMS and VMS 4.x, depending on disk size (MicroVMS fits on a 30MB disk when the full version would not). I don't recall if there is any support for them in VMS 5.x - the max RAM is 4MB (unlike later Qbus VAXen, the RAM is _on_ the Qbus) but one could easily put a newer disk controller in there other than the RQDX1 and a larger disk. As shipped, though, I don't think the uVAX-I arrived with a large enough disk for VMS 5.0, at least not without a very manual, very painful install. Where is this? (city? country? continent?) I still have the one from work from 1984 so I'm not in the market, but people here do want to know. -ethan
