Ah, I knew that sounded familiar. I have a pretty sizable stack of what appear to be original nine-track tapes with their pdp11 software on them in my collection. Any interest? I could try to get my tu-10 going again to image them, but might need some help
--jake On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 3:12 AM, Holm Tiffe <[email protected]> wrote: > Holm Tiffe wrote: > > > In the nineties I've workes as electronican and system administrator at > the > > institue of geophyics at our local University of Mining and Technology > here > > in Freiberg Germany. > > Some day I've got a call from Motorola in Munich, they wanted to get rid > of > > some old computers and asked if we had some use for them, I've sayed yes. > > > > As far as I know we got 3 Computers, one was an 68000 Unix system from > > philips, some kind of Microcomputer development system for 8080 or 8085, > > I've got the system running but since there wasn't much software on the > > disk we had not much use for this thing. The disk was alsready dying and > > lived not that long. > > The next thing was a desktop VME System from Motorola, IMHO equipped with > > an 68010, some MMUs, an color Monitor ad Harddisk and Floppy.. it run > some > > kind of VDOS (or so) .. or VME-DOS or soemthing.., I remember that we > had some > > documentiation for it and I've reinstalled that VDOS.. but not much use > for > > that thing also. > > > > The 3rd Computer was the most interestng one. That thing was labeled > > "Applikon Workstation" (as far as I remember, may be Applicon..). > > That was some kind of a microvax made by Schlumberger. > > It had an CPU that sat in a QBUS Backplane and a QBUS to UNIBUS Bridge. > > The CPU was only a double sized board (!), an Emulex UC07 conected the > disk > > to the machine and so far as I remember there was some kind of graphics > > board on the unibus side. I've repaired the CPU Board by changing the > > RSA232 Drivers for the console and the beast came to live. I've fiddeled > > around with the TK50 Tapes containing VMS4.6 (if my memory not fails) but > > could'nt get warm with VMS... Installed NetBSD and failed. > > NetBSD was'nt booting from the SCSI Drives with the Emulex, someone sent > > me an UDA50 and I was able to install and boot NetBSD, but had to key in > > the loader at the chevron every time I had to boot.. > > I've sent the Emulex to Ragge for diagnostics and never got it back. > > The Machine ran for years as ftp server at the institute until I've > pulled > > the plug. Have never seen a picture from that graphics board. > > I've leaved the University in 1989, the machine sat on the garret of the > > building to this time, I'm pretty sure it's long gone... > > > > > > Now I'm fiddeling with VAXen again and that old thing came to mind, > looked > > with google but could'nt find a machine like this, not even a Microvax > with > > a only doubles sized CPU Board like an KDF-11. > > > > The question now is...is someone knowing of a beast like this? > > > > Regards, > > > > Holm > > > > > Hmm...my old memory is fading... it was a pretty much standard KA630-AA CPU > in that machine, I've found my original mailing from 9/1995 in the archive: > > > https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-vax/1995/09/27/0000.html > > > Regards, > > Holm > -- > Technik Service u. Handel Tiffe, www.tsht.de, Holm Tiffe, > Freiberger Straße 42, 09600 Oberschöna, USt-Id: DE253710583 > www.tsht.de, [email protected], Fax +49 3731 74200, Mobil: 0172 8790 741 > >
