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Re: VAX-11/780 up and running at LSSM

From Subcommandante XDelta <vlf@star.enet.dec.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.vms, comp.sys.dec
Subject Re: VAX-11/780 up and running at LSSM
Date 2025-11-30 10:23 +1100
Organization VMS Liberation Front
Message-ID <10gfv8q$3r2f6$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 29/11/2025 9:26 am, Dave McGuire wrote:
> 
>   Hi folks, I thought some here might be interested to hear that we at
> the Large Scale Systems Museum have gotten our VAX-11/780 to the point
> where it will boot VMS.  We fixed a list of hardware issues as long as
> my arm, but it runs, and it runs great.
> 
>   Next on the list for that machine is the addition of a DEUNA Ethernet
> controller and a permanent system disk.  (For our final testing we
> borrowed the VMS v4.7 system disk, an RA90, from our VAX-11/750.)
> 
>   These are all REAL systems, not emulated.
> 
>   The Large Scale Systems Museum (LSSM, https://www.lssmuseum.org/) is a
> public, brick-and-mortar, donor-funded nonprofit museum in Pittsburgh,
> PA, USA that covers all kinds of computers, but with a particular
> emphasis on minicomputers, mainframes, and supercomputers.  We recently
> celebrated the 10th anniversary of our first public opening.
> 
>             Thanks,
>             -Dave McGuire, LSSM
> 

That is wonderful news! - Thank you, very much, for the notification to comp.os.vms.

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VAX-11/780 up and running at LSSM Dave McGuire <mcguire@lssmuseum.org> - 2025-11-28 17:26 -0500
  Re: VAX-11/780 up and running at LSSM Subcommandante XDelta <vlf@star.enet.dec.com> - 2025-11-30 10:23 +1100
  Re: VAX-11/780 up and running at LSSM kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2025-11-29 18:36 -0500
    Re: VAX-11/780 up and running at LSSM Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2025-11-29 18:42 -0500
      Re: VAX-11/780 up and running at LSSM Dave McGuire <mcguire@lssmuseum.org> - 2025-11-30 21:56 -0500
        Re: VAX-11/780 up and running at LSSM Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2025-12-03 13:25 +0100
    Re: VAX-11/780 up and running at LSSM Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2025-11-30 19:33 -0500
      Re: VAX-11/780 up and running at LSSM Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2025-11-30 20:21 -0500
        Re: VAX-11/780 up and running at LSSM "Robert A. Brooks" <FIRST.LAST@vmssoftware.com> - 2025-11-30 21:33 -0500
  Re: VAX-11/780 up and running at LSSM Dave McGuire <mcguire@lssmuseum.org> - 2025-12-02 12:15 -0500
    Re: VAX-11/780 up and running at LSSM chrisq <syseng@gfsys.co.uk> - 2025-12-05 16:22 +0000
      Re: VAX-11/780 up and running at LSSM Dave McGuire <mcguire@lssmuseum.org> - 2025-12-06 11:01 -0500

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