Turning a VAX 11/750 into a workstation (Re: VMS for MicroVAX II/III (was Re: Value of a PDP/8?))

Bill Pechter pechter at gmail.com
Mon Mar 12 00:05:37 CDT 2007


Nope... I did the install on the hardware in my DEC Field Service days... It
was a VS11/VSV11 subsystem.  Had a raster graphics box hung off an interface
on the Unibus.

Perhaps it was a CSS (special systems) item.

The box was at Fort Monmouth in Central New Jersey.
There were diags and manuals in the Fiche under that name.

Bill

On 3/11/07, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
>
> At 10:37 PM -0500 3/10/07, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> >Bill Pechter wrote:
> >>The DEC VS11/VSV11 kind of did the earliest "Vax workstation."
> >>
> >>It was a Qbus graphics subsystem with 20 inch monitor which hooked up to
> a
> >>Unibus interface.
> >
> >I'm reasonably certain there was an earlier workstation
> >configuration for VAXen.  I think the earliest was a UNIBUS-attached
> >graphical console for the VAX 11/780.
> >
> >Peace...  Sridhar
>
> I believe you're thinking of the VAXstation 100 terminal (aka VS100).
>
>         Zane
>
>
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