Setting up a VAXstation

[e.stiebler]

Liam Proven wrote:
> Well, last night, I went and collected my first ever DEC box. It's a
> VAXstation 3100/38, bought on eBay for 99p (UK£0.99).

Good price ;-)

> [2] Friends have commented to me that a VAX of this age won't be able
> to boot from CD-ROM. Somewhere, I have a hobbyist VMS CD, if I can
> find it. 

They boot from CD just fine. All you have to find is the right CDROM 
drive. Some could be jumpered to 512k blocks, actually the best 
experience woth non DEC drives is to use CD-burners. Just try it out.

Good luck