Clik here to view.
AlphaServer 4100: Photo Tour – DEC StorageWorks BA-356 Storage Shelf
What a mouthful of a name. What the bloody hell does all that mean? The Unit is a Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) StorageWorks (name of the product line) Storage Shelf. Basically it’s a SCSI box....
View ArticleAlphaServer 4100: No dice
I replaced the PSUs in the AlphaServer 4100 yesterday and… they work but the machine still isn’t starting up. Nothing on the LCD panel, nothing on the terminal port. I’ve swapped CPUs around, run it...
View ArticleAlphaServer 4100: Replacement Parts
As you know I had no luck reviving the AlphaServer 4100 after it blacked out on me when I initially powered it on. Having traced the issue to the PCI back-plane subsystem via a lot of LED chasing I...
View ArticleRaspberryPi VAX cluster: I haven’t forgotten about you!
Hi, sorry for the lack of articles and updates. I haven’t abandoned the project, actually I’ve been too busy building up the hardware together and working and figuring out silly things like the TCP/IP...
View ArticleClik here to view.
RaspberryPi VAXcluster: Build Photos
SimH VAXcluster Build, a set on Flickr. Here’s the promised photos, a day late and a dollar short.
View ArticleClik here to view.
Raspberry Pi VAXcluster: Node Bay covers
Raspberry Pi Node Board covers, a photo by pixel_mason on Flickr. Found a pair of very nice mesh 5.25″ blank panels from my gaming PC case that I have adapted to cover the 5.25″ bays on the cluster...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi VAXcluster: Software Mania
Everything pretty-much for the cluster project has moved over to the software side. I have made several significant progress steps: I cracked ipnat, which I am using on the Intel routing to route...
View ArticleClik here to view.
RaspberryPi VAX Cluster: We have a Cluster!
This screenshot may not look like much, but it’s the first ‘SHOW CLUSTER’ report from the cluster box executed in VMS on PIVAX2 (the local-booting Raspberry Pi node).
View ArticleFinal Thoughts for RetroChallange 2012
Wow, this has been quite a ride for my first RetroChallenge. With the VAXcluster SimH project, I took on a project that had a lot of unknowns and a lot of things I didn’t know the next thing about. I...
View ArticleClik here to view.
VAXstation 4000 Power Switch – Issues and Cleaning
I recently was very happy to take delivery of 2 VAXstation 4000 Model 60 machines from a generous friend I met at DEC Legacy 2011. They’ve taken some time to get to me but are in very good condition...
View ArticleNew Project: Control SimH via a web browser
Hi, This place has been very quiet for 3 years+, but I now have more time and headspace to concentrate on DEC related stuff. I just wanted to put up a brief post to describe my new DEC-related project....
View Article
