[rescue] Rescued: Vaxstation 3100

[Dave McGuire]

On March 2, Kenneth Dunn wrote:
> I just rescued a VAXStation 3100, (model: VS42A-BW). Some one in NZ
> posted on nz.comp that they had a Vax in my area free for removal, I was
> fortunate enough to have checked the newsgroup just a few minutes after
> the messages posting. 
> 
> It has 16MB RAM, SCSI and floppy interfaces, but missing brackets
> to mount harddrives. I'm going to put a bubble bag in the case and
> rest the hard drive on that and tape the hell out of everything (must
> be my Maori side showing). Any better ideas for a quick fix ? The 
> floppy drive looks poked.
> 
> Found out that there is a serial console/monitor-VT keyboard 
> console selector when reading up on it at Vaxarchives, but I
> had to drill a hole to get access to the dip switch from outside
> the case.
> 
> I downloaded NetBSD for Vax last night, which took a while on a 
> 56K modem. Am just reading documentation on how to do a netboot
> install from a Linux box. 
> 
> Happy happy joy joy.

  Kick ass!  This isn't a screaming fast system, but they sure are
nice to work on.  Good find.

    -Dave

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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL         "Less talk.  More synthohol." --Lt. Worf