Dave, Looking forwards to it, will honestly be my first experience with any VAXen. I hope to make a trip out your way sometime in January. But you can go ahead and ship those boxes in the meantime. send me an email for my shipping address and we'll get this worked out. Thanks, Andrew Mattera
On Nov 29, 2025, at 09:57, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Thanks Andrew! You can run it the next time you visit.
Remember I have those boxes here for you, let me know if you want me to ship them over.
-Dave
On 11/28/25 06:00, Andrew Mattera wrote: Dave, Congratulations to you, and the six others involved in the restoration of that machine, on a successful system bring up! I greatly anticipate seeing it next time I'm in your neck of the woods. Thanks, Andrew Mattera
On Nov 27, 2025, at 20:44, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Well we've got both, more or less; the 785 is a slightly faster respin of the 780. (7.5MHz clock, rather than 5MHz) We have a few S/34s, one on the exhibit floor that runs great. You should definitely come out for a visit.
-Dave
On 11/27/25 14:02, Dean Notarnicola wrote: Congrats, Dave! There’s a special place in my heart for VAXen, as the 11/785 was the first mini I used in college, outside of the IBM System 34 in high school. VMS and VT terminals were a pleasure to use in comparison. On Thu, Nov 27, 2025 at 09:59 Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic <vcf- midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org <mailto:vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org>> wrote: Thanks! Yeah this one took a lot of work from like six people over several years. The poor machine was a disaster that had quite a few hardware problems. But seeing those boot messages last night was the big reward! -Dave On 11/27/25 09:29, Jonathan Chapman via vcf-midatlantic wrote: > Dave, > > Congrats, that's awesome! No small feat there. > > Thanks, > Jonathan > > On Wednesday, November 26th, 2025 at 22:54, Dave McGuire via vcf- midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org <mailto:vcf- midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org>> wrote: > >> >> >> >> I am pleased to announce that we at LSSM have just gotten our >> VAX-11/780 up and running! >> >> Now we have to clean up the debugging and repair mess, clean up the >> cabling, arrange for a permanent system disk, etc, then we will declare >> it an "operational exhibit". Once that's done, it will be on HECnet >> whenever it's up and running. >> >> Of course all are welcome to come to LSSM in person and run the >> machine. (feel the rumble in the floor, etc) >> >> -Dave >> >> -- >> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ >> New Kensington, PA -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
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