On Wed., Jan. 26, 2022, 16:47 Jonathan Stone via cctalk, <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> At the other end of the spectrum, the same seller had a lot of 4 microvax
> and VAXstation (BA213/215) systems which went on eBay for about $3000.
> Buyer paid air-freight to Scotland. I suspect they're a
Your description made me think of Goto Fail:
https://www.imperialviolet.org/2014/02/22/applebug.html
> or using logical instead of boolean (or vice versa) logic
I did find this:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/google-pushed-a-one-character-typo-to-production-bricking-chrome-os-devices/
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On Tue., Jul. 13, 2021, 15:39 Zane Healy via cctalk,
wrote:
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> When I did all my testing about a month and a half ago, I used a VT320.
> I’m not sure if I’ve ever tried to talk to a VAXstation with anything other
> than a DEC terminal.
>
I had the serial console on a model 60 working connected
I was in Dublin until recently. I actually had a vaxstation flown into
Ireland from the states but it moved back with me to Canada recently.
I do know someone in Galway area who had a couple Vaxen but he uses them as
coffee tables and I couldn't seem to interest him in getting them booted.
I'll s
I'm just guessing here but I would suspect this had more to do with the
hardware capabilities of the tape system.
Not all tape drives could just pause to wait for more data then resume. If
the data wasn't being steamed fast enough the tape would have to resync
somehow which could even require rewi
I've had a plan to set up a raspberry Pi as the mopd and NFS server to bit
my vaxstation for a while. To be a self contained demo I could probably fit
it inside the vaxstation.
One of the annoyances is that it would need another power cord and need a
place to mount it inside.
It occurs to me that
