Hi-ho,
I'm not sure of the model yet, at this stage all I know is that it's 6
cabinets with digital on some of them. That means it's not a minivax
but other than that I'm in a hold loop waiting for a date next month to
go and take a look. :-)
I worked on a PDP11 micro that was failing with some obscure file system
error in 1991 or so. Very surreal experience as I was told it was a
Xenix 386 machine by one of the other techs where I was working which I
had a working knowledge of, just! After a long phone conversation with
DEC I managed to get a prompt on one of the terminals but it wasn't
through skill, more a great deal of good luck and random connector
wiggling from memory. :D
On 18/08/15 21:50, Peter Glassenbury wrote:
What DEC hardware was it ?
We used to have a Vax 11/750 running Ultrix and then 4.3 BSD in the
department
Of interest to see one saved if I can find one. Still have the source
code and maybe the tapes.
Ferrymead doesn't save computers -- not old enough. The old computer
group out there
is long defunct. We had a full museum
worth of PC's, minis and a *lot* of other computing memorabilia that
we couldn't
store any more. (Earthquake repairs). Ferrymead, Canterbury and Otago
Museum didn't want it
(Otago had most anyway and only really wanted local). I could find no
other museum I found
in the South island. In the end it was split between the Yaldhurst
Museum and an
ex Data General Engineer (Brendan McNeill) that was looking to start a
local computing museum
Peter Glassenbury
Computer Science and Software Engineering
University of Canterbury.
crig...@criggie.org.nz wrote:
Not really old or rare enough to be in a museum, although Pleasent
Point Railway Museum might be interested, whereas Ferrymead is quite
space-constrained.
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