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

[Ken Hansen]

Dave - you have marketing info on PRO/Venix - You showed it to me (I gave it
to Dave S., he gave it to you, and then you showed it to me!)

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com>
To: "BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak"
<bobkeys at weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu>
Cc: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 1:01 PM
Subject: Re: [rescue] What to do with an orphan DEC Professional 350?


> On October 5, BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak wrote:
> > That is the same monitor on a VT220?  If so, maybe something will
surface
> > later.  I have seen a few 220's go by.
>
>   The VT220 has a built-in monitor...The VT240 uses an external
> monitor, and can use the same ones (VR201 or VR241) that the Pro
> systems use.
>
> > Well I was hoping I could run the little Venix on it, assuming I could
> > get some disks written.  I have the bin images, but not a good way to
> > write the disks.  I tried writing VAX Ultrix floppy sets, but got
> > nowhwere on my AT style drives.  I may see if I can run up a minimal
> > MVII with floppy again, and try that.
>
>   A MicroVAX might be your best bet...
>
> > Is Venix a pretty much straight V7 clone?  I have never run it, myself.
>
>   I don't know much about it.  I believe it is V7 based but I don't
> have any details.  It should be interesting, though.
>
>      -Dave
>
> --
> Dave McGuire
> Laurel, MD
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