VAXmate for Windows

[Allison]

>
>Subject: Re: VAXmate for Windows
>   From: Adrian Graham <witchy at binarydinosaurs.co.uk>
>   Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:51:54 +0000
>     To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>On 19/11/07 06:54, "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
>
>> At 9:23 PM -0800 11/18/07, David Griffith wrote:
>>> I have seven 5.25" floppies labeled as RX33K which contain:
>>> 
>>> VAXmate MS-Windows v1.03 (two disks)
>>> VAXmate Info System v1.1
>>> VT240 Emulator Update
>>> VAXmate S/A Install v1.1
>>> VAXmate MS-DOS v3.10
>>> 
>>> All of these are labeled "For VAXmate operating environment v1.1".
>>> 
>>> I don't remember where it came from, but there's been some recent talk
>>> about VAXen.  Who wants these?
>> 
>> I assume these will only run on a VAXmate?  I've only seen one
>> VAXmate and that was nearly 10 years ago.  How good was the VT240
>> emulation?
>
>I never tried the full graphics side of things on the emulator, but as a
>terminal it was great, a novelty in those days to have a black-on-amber
>display too!
>
>We have 2 VAXmates at Bletchley Park so if those floppies could wing their
>way across the pond that'd be great! I keep meaning to drag them out of
>their storage room and set at least one up to exhibit, we're building an
>Electronic Office exhibit that the VAXmate should be a part of really.

If the VAXmates have the optional hard disk box mind the cooling if RD32
(ST250? 40mb) as it ran very hot and tended to fail.  The RD31 (st225 20mb)
was lower power, cooler and far more reliable.

If you make it operational the VAXmate was a PCSA(Pathworks) terminal
with Ethernet access to shared and private files on VAX/OpenVMS.  The 
result made it a very useful system.  Typical VAXmate had 2MB of ram 
some had 4, back then that was a large amount.


Allison

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