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> 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> 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