[rescue] VAX 11/750s - Re: Linux wet paint, was Re: Spark10 CPU question (must fix - SPARC damnit :-) )

[John Hudak]

>I find myself greatly amused at the idea of a VAX 11/750 booting from a
> "modern" computer whose sole purpose is to emulate a tape drive.
Been doing that for years - booting my various VAXes and PDPs.  emulates a
TU58.  Eventhough I have 3 working
jTU58s, my lil windoz machine performs that job very well.
And, if I need to speed things up, I run SIMH  (with RT, RSX, VMS) from my
RL02 images on my i7-4xxx. (When I get some time, I have unix v6 (from a
real Bell Labs tape and V7BDS which I need to cobble together.)

My lab used to have 4-5 VAX750s. Never had any issues with PS.  the 11/34s
were rock solid.  The only DEC gear that didn't compare was 11/44....seemed
to suffer a host of ailments - ,mostly memory boards dropping bits...IIRC,
the flaky ones seemed to have NatSemi memory.  Oh the fun times....My
colleague across the hall used to take great pride in diagnosing the DEC
machines before field circus showed up. - often made me wonder why we even
had the svc agreement....but I digress...
J


On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 7:45 PM, Phil Stracchino <phils at caerllewys.net>
wrote:

> On 12/19/16 17:49, Ian Finder wrote:
> > I will eventually replace the TU58 roller. I've had work done by Terry's
> > Rubber Rollers before, and the guy always delivers good work on budget.
> >
> > For now, there is a thinkpad T420 living inside of the cavernous
> enclosure
> > running Debian-stable and tu58em. Mostly, it just runs the console tape.
> > Overkill- could use a Raspberry Pi or pocketchip but it's always there to
> > pull up docs on, so good stuff...
>
>
> I find myself greatly amused at the idea of a VAX 11/750 booting from a
> "modern" computer whose sole purpose is to emulate a tape drive.
>
>
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