Before Christmas I hauled two MicroVAX 3100s and a VT420 back from Lincoln (on the train)

Seller said one of them (a 3100/90) was booting but was having issues with hanging during boot sometimes, and also had licencing issues + no login

The other (a 3100/10) was apparently completely dead with not even the drives spinning up

The VT420 appeared to be fully functional albeit with what appeared to be mouldy plastics, which also affect the two MicroVAXen to a lesser extent; this turned out to be paint splatter and dirt which wiped off, revealing the all plastics are actually in great condition barring very yellowed plastics on the VT420

#vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #dec #vax #microvax #vt420 #digital

Hehe, I left #netbsd installing on my #vax (a lowly #MicroVAX 3100/30, with 32MB RAM and 25MHz CPU) over the weekend. It's running on the network now, but is *spectacularly* slow, even on NetBSD 7.2 😂

It takes about 80 minutes to boot, and 2-3 minutes to login on a serial console.

It's effectively unusable, but was an interesting #retrocomputing exercise to get up and running. Ah well, back to #VMS.

Ich habe gerade ein paar #retro bzw. #vintage Computer abzugeben.

Folgenden Maschinen suchen ein neues Zuhause:

* #Sun #sparc station IPC
* Sun Ultra 5 (64 bit sparc)
* HP 712/60 (gecko #PARISC)
* #MicroVAX II (BA123)

Die Geräte müssten in Bochum abgeholt werden.

Von der #VAX habe ich gerade noch keine Bilder, da die noch im Keller sitzt.

Mir genügt es, wenn die Maschinen ein liebevolles Zuhause finden, und nicht dem Elektroschrott anheim fallen müssen.

🔄 Boosts welcome