Ok, that's what I thought based on what I had found. I have VMS itself licensed and I have a PAK for DECnet but for some reason it doesn't seem to work. I'll have to play with it some more and see what I can figure out. Based on what I know, it is a 3100 model 10, the half-height box. I have the two 5.2 BIN tapes so I'll try loading those. Well, first I'll have to see what it comes with, if the disk spins up and works. :) If everything goes well, the next purchase will most likely be a ZuluSCSI, SCSI2SD or something similar.
Just out of curiosity, for the PDP-11 I have been able to use the tu58fs utility to emulate TU58 tapes over a serial port. Is something like that possible with the VAX machines as well? - Peter On Tue, Dec 2, 2025 at 7:39 AM John H. Reinhardt via cctalk < [email protected]> wrote: > On 12/2/2025 12:00 AM, Peter Ekstrom via cctalk wrote: > > I have a MicroVAX 3100 on its way now, and as I understand the info I > have > > found, VMS 4.x isn't supported on that machine? > > > > - Peter > Unfortunately not. The depending on the model, MicroVAX 3100 series > ranges from VAX/VMS V5.1 and up. What model did you end up getting? Which > Ebay listing was it? (if you don't mind me asking). > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVMS#Release_history > > There is another, better list of releaes but I can't seem to find it at > the moment. Hopefully someone else has it. > > > John H. Reinhardt > > >
