[olug] (OT) What to do with a VAX

[Carl Lundstedt]

The only Open OS that I've found that can run on these older DEC
machines is OpenBSD. 

Is the silly thing turbochannel?  If so, chuck it.  Turbochannel bussing
has ZERO support.  (Popular DEC Vax/VMS boxes that were TC were Model
900 and Model 300).  On a TC machine, you have to use the serial
terminal for the console to get it the OS installed.  This can be a
SERIOUS pain if you don't know what you are doing (or don't have a
genuine serial terminal laying around).

Although, if you have a license for OpenVMS, VMS is a really nice OS. 
You might stick with that (although I don't know any open projects that
run on VMS.  Our VMS machine has to run all proprietary servers. :( ).

I'm sure my group would take it for parts :)  (We lost a power supply
out of one of our Model 300 3000s to lightening. The sole survivor
houses an archive of software that we like to have around for
documentation purposes.)

I'd be real interested to hear what you do with it.

Carl Lundstedt
UNL

On Tue, 2003-05-06 at 11:36, Kevin Lanik wrote:
> I have recently required a fairly old VAXen and am wondering if anyone had some suggestions as to what I could do with it. I have been thinking possible a file server but I'm certain there are more creative (and better suited  for the machine...) things to do with this. It currently has OpenVMS but I'm not opposed to trying a BSD or even the experimental Linux on it. Just thought I'd throw this out to OLUG and see what people think...Thanks! Kevin
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Carl Lundstedt <clundst at unlserve.unl.edu>
University of Nebraska