I have not tried, but I did read of someone who converted a MicroVAX 3100 Model 20 to an Infoserver 100 by swapping the ROM chips. You also need to set the default boot flags to D0000000 so that it will boot from SYSD. I think the other oddity was that the console ends up on the printer port rather than the console port.
I think the model 20 is the only one that can be converted to an infoserver.
I agree that infoservers (especially the Infoserver 1000) are very handy and whilst OpenVMS 8.2 onwards can serve LAD disks, if you want to support VXTs a real infoserver is still the only way
I believe HP decided not to implement the particular functions required by VXTs for remote pagefile or the VXTLDR mechanism etc. It is not suprising as VXTs have not been manufactured for nearly 15 years and I guess they decided no-one would still be using them. I do know a few people at work however that refuse to let them go
It is possible to load them in 'host-based' mode from a modern VMS system using LANCP or DECnet, but you don't get the nice workgroup/centralised management features of the 'infoserver-based' mode and the VXT must have at least 12MB memory.
malmberg May 11 2013 In general the current compilers will work on older versions of VMS.
malmberg May 11 2013 Is this for Hobby use or commercial use?
perikiz May 06 2013 [url=http://www.perikiz.c om][/url]I'm looking for COBOL and BASIC for AXP 7.3. Any ideas?
malmberg April 16 2013 Hobbyist one is looking into what can be done to better block the spammers with out impacting the legitimate users.
pfau2 April 15 2013 this latest one posted 143 times within 24 hours
pfau2 April 15 2013 there should be a limit on how many posts you can make until we have some reason to believe you're not a spammer
somersdave April 12 2013 Can't some limit be put on posts per hour or something? These cretinous spamers seem determined to spoil the site (for some reason)
eMGee March 11 2013 My rx2620 will be scrapped by the end of Friday this week (see thread 2041/post 6746).
FranciscoRaulOrtega February 28 2013 selling two integrity servers. Check the forum !
Lord Beckett February 20 2013 port VMS, hand over the code or jumpstart FreeVMS.
eMGee February 13 2013 Okay, I will. In fact, I have lots of pictures to potentially share, also detailed pictures of a mint-condition DS15 (that I recently sold). Well, that is, if anyone is interested. Feel free to PM
HobbyistOne February 06 2013 I don't recall seeing any photo submissions from eMGee. Could you post them again?
eMGee February 01 2013 Does anyone still care to update the “gallery”? I think I sent a picture many months ago (by now), but nothing happened.
Maybe it's time for a new, or additional, VMS web community?
vaxpert January 29 2013 I'm looking for COBOL and BASIC for AXP 7.3. Any ideas?
