[rescue] What to do with an orphan DEC Professional 350?

Doctor Obnox Son of a Bitch rescue at sunhelp.org
Fri Oct 5 10:52:24 CDT 2001


BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak, reeling from the shock, managed on Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 10:43:10AM -0500 to scrawl:
> On a lark.... I sometimes do a lot of things on a lark... I could not resist
> a dusty, musty, but not too rusty, DEC Professional 350 crate at todays
> Friday Friendly Feeding Frenzy (FFFF).  I bought it mostly to pull the
> dual floppy out of it as a VAX spare.  But, the thought occurred to me
> that Venix(?) or something like that ran on it.  I did not get a keyboard
> or monitor for it (DEC VT220ish thing, maybe?), but was wondering if there
> was a way to run a serial console off the critter for some testing?
> 
> Anyone ever do much or still run one of these DEC Professional 350 crates?


I haven't, but a quick google reveals that someone in Hungary has..

http://telnet.hu/hamster/dr/professional.html

> 
> Thanks
> 
> Bob
> 
> (I know, it was stupid of me to pick it up.... but....(:+}}, for a buck!)
> 
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