[rescue] Vaxstation 4000VLC

[William Barnett-Lewis]

My few comments:

1) The VLC was a shit ton of fun.
2) runs VMS  just fine, if slow, with only 24mb ram.
3) Never let you get talked into getting rid of machines to satisfy a soon
to be Ex.
4) I may still have a keyboard, mouse, video cable and dead tree manual for
the VLC from the day. I will look on tomorrow morning when I get off work.
If I do still have them, I'll contact the OP off list.

On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 5:18 PM John Hudak via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org>
wrote:

> Yep, you are on the right track.  Mouser sells 3W3 connectors as well.  It
> has been quite a while since I dealt with a VLC but a couple of things
> stick in my mind...the were slow as molasses (VLC = Very Low Cost), would
> only run Ultrix, DECs version of UNIX, NetBSD  allegedly would run on these
> machines but I've never tried it.
> Have fun
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 3:29 PM Michael Dombrowski via rescue <
> rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I've owned many interesting Unix workstations over the years, but never a
>> Vax... until now. I ended up snagging a Vaxstation 4000 VLC on eBay and it
>> is en route. I've been doing some background reading and wanted to query
>> the experts here.
>> My initial goal is to get a serial console going and my understanding is
>> that I will need to get a MMJ to DB9/25 adapter along with MMJ cable. The
>> machine has a DB25 port, but this can't be used for console.
>> I'd also eventually love to get a video console going.  The 3W3 to
>> anything adapters seem quite rare nowadays, but it looks like digikey sells
>> 3W3 connectors so an adapter to VGA can be made without too much trouble.
>> Mouse and keyboard seem to be the bottleneck. There is a project out
>> there to adapt a PS2 mouse, I haven't found one yet for keyboards.
>>
>> RAM seems standard and I have a SCSI2SD. I also have an AUI transceiver
>> on the way
>>
>> Thanks
>> Mike
>>
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