Re: Is pmax alive?

["J. Alexander Jacocks" <jjacocks%gmail.com@localhost>]

I, also, have a 5000/240, though I haven't powered it up, recently.

I do still have an interest in NetBSD on it, since I ran NetBSD (initial
release on PMIN) on a 5000/120, when I was in college.  It was my first
real workstation.

- Alex

On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 3:35 PM, Erik Bertelsen <bertelsen.erik%gmail.com@localhost>
wrote:

> I have a DS 5000 pmin 33MHz, which I have almost given up upgrading
> its NetBSD installation (now several years old).
>
> I may be tempted to give it another final try, otherwise it'll
> probably end its life in the dumpster... (it served as the development
> platform for a colleague and myself for a few years running hpux, but
> after that I revived it for NetBSD for several releases).
>
> - Erik
>
> 2016-03-05 21:10 GMT+01:00 Tobias Nygren <tnn%netbsd.org@localhost>:
> > On Sat, 5 Mar 2016 19:32:51 +0100
> > Felix Deichmann <m4j0rd0m0%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> is pmax still alive and a working port (it is Tier II at least, but is
> >> that correct)? I cannot see real activity on the mailing list for
> >> months and years, and last posts even imply that the port could be
> >> broken on some machines or even altogether.
> >>
> >> I could have the chance to get one of the "faster" DECstations, but
> >> see no reason unless there is hope to have or get a working port in
> >> the near future. :/
> >
> > Hum. I have a DECStation 5000/240 and a SCSI disk with a post-it note
> > labeled NetBSD/pmax on it. Can't recall what version it is. Not earlier
> > than 4.0 or at worst 3.1. It worked OK at the time.
> > Managed to cobble up a narrow->wide SCSI adapter from three cables,
> > but it isn't booting. The ROM sees rz0, though. Trying to hook up
> > the disk to a different machine now to see if there's anything readable
> > on still it. If not I will try to install on it.
> > (I do recall that netboot is broken on this machine. The only way
> > to install it is to disklabel and installboot on a different host.)
> >
> > Stay tuned ...
> >
> > -Tobias
>