Re: A Mystery

2017-10-13 Thread Holm Tiffe via cctalk
Zane Healy wrote: > > > On Oct 13, 2017, at 9:51 AM, Antonio Carlini via cctalk > > wrote: > > > > On 13/10/17 07:17, Holm Tiffe wrote: > >> > >> I meant that brick: > >> http://www.tiffe.de/Robotron/PDP-VAX/VAX/rtVAX300-internal-3.jpg > >> http://www.tiffe.de/Robotron/PDP-VAX/VAX/rtVAX300-in

Re: A Mystery

2017-10-13 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
> On Oct 13, 2017, at 9:51 AM, Antonio Carlini via cctalk > wrote: > > On 13/10/17 07:17, Holm Tiffe wrote: >> >> I meant that brick: >> http://www.tiffe.de/Robotron/PDP-VAX/VAX/rtVAX300-internal-3.jpg >> http://www.tiffe.de/Robotron/PDP-VAX/VAX/rtVAX300-internal-1.jpg >> http://www.tiffe.de/R

Re: A Mystery

2017-10-13 Thread Holm Tiffe via cctalk
Antonio Carlini wrote: > On 13/10/17 07:17, Holm Tiffe wrote: > > > > I meant that brick: > > http://www.tiffe.de/Robotron/PDP-VAX/VAX/rtVAX300-internal-3.jpg > > http://www.tiffe.de/Robotron/PDP-VAX/VAX/rtVAX300-internal-1.jpg > > http://www.tiffe.de/Robotron/PDP-VAX/VAX/rtVAX300-internal-12jpg >

Re: A Mystery

2017-10-13 Thread Antonio Carlini via cctalk
On 13/10/17 07:17, Holm Tiffe wrote: I meant that brick: http://www.tiffe.de/Robotron/PDP-VAX/VAX/rtVAX300-internal-3.jpg http://www.tiffe.de/Robotron/PDP-VAX/VAX/rtVAX300-internal-1.jpg http://www.tiffe.de/Robotron/PDP-VAX/VAX/rtVAX300-internal-12jpg on those boards: http://www.tiffe.de/Robo

Re: A Mystery

2017-10-12 Thread Holm Tiffe via cctalk
Antonio Carlini via cctalk wrote: > On 12/10/17 21:10, Holm Tiffe via cctalk wrote: > > This thread is becoming a little confusing. The VAXstation II/RC was a > VAXstation II in a pedestal enclosure > and differed from a normal VAXstation II in only one way: some of the > backplane slots had gl

Re: A Mystery

2017-10-12 Thread Antonio Carlini via cctalk
On 12/10/17 21:10, Holm Tiffe via cctalk wrote: This thread is becoming a little confusing. The VAXstation II/RC was a VAXstation II in a pedestal enclosure and differed from a normal VAXstation II in only one way: some of the backplane slots had glue in them. (OK, two ways, since apparently DE

Re: A Mystery

2017-10-12 Thread Holm Tiffe via cctalk
Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: > On 10/11/2017 01:51 AM, Steven M Jones via cctalk wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On 10/10/2017 12:51, allison via cctalk wrote: > >> Memory says: it was MICROVAX/RT and the cpu had a reduced instruction > >> set and was used with ELN/PASCAL. IT was a reduced capability >

RE: A Mystery

2017-10-11 Thread Rob Jarratt via cctalk
> >Memory says: it was MICROVAX/RT and the cpu had a reduced instruction > >set and was used with ELN/PASCAL. IT was a reduced capability machine. > > You¹re thinking of the rtVAX, which was a different product; the rtVAX > 1000 was a MicroVAX II, but without memory managent. It could not run VMS

Re: A Mystery

2017-10-11 Thread Jon Elson via cctalk
On 10/11/2017 01:51 AM, Steven M Jones via cctalk wrote: On 10/10/2017 12:51, allison via cctalk wrote: Memory says: it was MICROVAX/RT and the cpu had a reduced instruction set and was used with ELN/PASCAL. IT was a reduced capability machine. As I recollect it used the same KA630/M7606,

Re: A Mystery

2017-10-11 Thread Paul Koning via cctalk
> On Oct 10, 2017, at 3:51 PM, allison via cctalk wrote: > > Memory says: it was MICROVAX/RT and the cpu had a reduced instruction set and > was used with > ELN/PASCAL. IT was a reduced capability machine. Microvaxen in general have reduced instruction sets, as specifically sanctioned by lat

Re: A Mystery

2017-10-11 Thread Camiel Vanderhoeven via cctalk
On 10/10/17, 9:51 PM, "cctech on behalf of allison via cctech" wrote: > > >On 10/10/17 3:17 PM, Antonio Carlini via cctalk wrote: >> On 10/10/17 14:26, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: >>> It's a VAXstation II/RC backplane, it was sold cheaper and crippled >>> by DEC to prevent adding more cards to

Re: A Mystery

2017-10-10 Thread Steven M Jones via cctalk
On 10/10/2017 12:17, Antonio Carlini via cctalk wrote: > > The /RC was (apparently) for "Reduced Connectivity" or some such. The RC stood for Restricted Configuration. (I didn't remember it correctly either.) https://books.google.com/books?id=Sr4cRFxEX7QC&lpg=PA15&ots=5XAty8lkUd&dq=VAXstation%

Re: A Mystery

2017-10-10 Thread allison via cctalk
On 10/10/17 3:17 PM, Antonio Carlini via cctalk wrote: On 10/10/17 14:26, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: It's a VAXstation II/RC backplane, it was sold cheaper and crippled by DEC to prevent adding more cards to it.  That was my first VAX, and I think I still have mine. Zane The /RC was (ap

Re: A Mystery

2017-10-10 Thread Adrian Stoness via cctalk
i aparently would put pennys in the floppy drivers of my parents rainbow 100 when i was a kid for some reason On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 8:31 PM, Chris Elmquist via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > Same kid that put oatmeal in the VCR? > > https://youtu.be/25abPjKr06U > > > On October 10, 20

Re: A Mystery

2017-10-10 Thread Chris Elmquist via cctalk
Same kid that put oatmeal in the VCR? https://youtu.be/25abPjKr06U On October 10, 2017 8:07:47 AM CDT, Rod Smallwood via cctalk wrote: >I have in my possession a back plane from a BA23. > >Somebody has put glue in the last three slots. > >Can anybody explain that? > >Rod -- Chris Elmquist

Re: A Mystery

2017-10-10 Thread Antonio Carlini via cctalk
On 10/10/17 14:26, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote: It's a VAXstation II/RC backplane, it was sold cheaper and crippled by DEC to prevent adding more cards to it. That was my first VAX, and I think I still have mine. Zane The /RC was (apparently) for "Reduced Connectivity" or some such. The sm

Re: A Mystery

2017-10-10 Thread Zane Healy via cctalk
It's a VAXstation II/RC backplane, it was sold cheaper and crippled by DEC to prevent adding more cards to it. That was my first VAX, and I think I still have mine. Zane > On Oct 10, 2017, at 6:07 AM, Rod Smallwood via cctalk > wrote: > > I have in my possession a back plane from a BA23. >

Re: A Mystery

2017-10-10 Thread Eric Smith via cctalk
On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 6:07 AM, Rod Smallwood via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > I have in my possession a back plane from a BA23. > Somebody has put glue in the last three slots. > Can anybody explain that? DEC sold a lower-priced, limited expansion MicroVAX II/RC, and rather than ac