3 Dec
2025
3 Dec
'25
10:57 a.m.
Ok, that's what I thought based on what I had found. I have VMS itself
licensed and I have a PAK for DECnet but for some reason it doesn't seem to
work.
I'll have to play with it some more and see what I can figure out. Based on
what I know, it is a 3100 model 10, the half-height box. I have the two 5.2
BIN tapes so I'll try loading those.
Well, first I'll have to see what it comes with, if the disk spins up and
works. :) If everything goes well, the next purchase will most likely be a
ZuluSCSI, SCSI2SD or something similar.
Just out of curiosity, for the PDP-11 I have been able to use the tu58fs
utility to emulate TU58 tapes over a serial port. Is something like that
possible with the VAX machines as well?
- Peter
On Tue, Dec 2, 2025 at 7:39 AM John H. Reinhardt via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 12/2/2025 12:00 AM, Peter Ekstrom via cctalk wrote:
I have a MicroVAX 3100 on its way now, and as I
understand the info I
have
found, VMS 4.x isn't supported on that
machine?
- Peter
Unfortunately not. The depending on the model, MicroVAX 3100 series
ranges from VAX/VMS V5.1 and up. What model did you end up getting? Which
Ebay listing was it? (if you don't mind me asking).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVMS#Release_history
There is another, better list of releaes but I can't seem to find it at
the moment. Hopefully someone else has it.
John H. Reinhardt