Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.2602:f977:0:1::5!not-for-mail From: Rich Alderson Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.sys.dec Subject: Re: VAX-11/780 up and running at LSSM Date: 30 Nov 2025 19:33:00 -0500 Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 25 Sender: alderson+news@panix5.panix.com Message-ID: References: <10gd7ig$6g5c$1@mail.neurotica.com> <10gg022$lc6$1@panix2.panix.com> Injection-Info: reader2.panix.com; posting-host="2602:f977:0:1::5"; logging-data="13308"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.7/Emacs 22.3 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.vms:378243 comp.sys.dec:4285 kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) writes: > In article <10gd7ig$6g5c$1@mail.neurotica.com>, > 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.) > What's the last version of VMS that can run on that machine? I may have > a Multinet kit for it but I think I gave my DEUNAs both away. > --scott We ran 7.3 on our 11/780-5 (a field upgraded 780) at Living Computers. -- Rich Alderson news@alderson.users.panix.com Audendum est, et veritas investiganda; quam etiamsi non assequamur, omnino tamen proprius, quam nunc sumus, ad eam perveniemus. --Galen