MicroVAX 3100 M30  ("WAVERLEY/S" )

 
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General Technical Information

HOSTNAME MINO
SYSTEM CPU SOC* @25MHz
KA45-A V1.4-38D-V4.2
CACHE (2nd, 1st D/I) 0 KB, 0 KB / 6 KB
RAM  32 MB (Max. 32 MB)
SCSI BUS NCR53C94 SCSI-1 (4 MB/s)
OPTION BUS 2 slots for DHW41-BA (-AA) cards, that would provide additional serial lines (these cards are not present in this system)
GRAPHICS N/A
HARD DISK DRIVES N/A (for the time being ...)
CD-ROM DRIVE N/A
NETWORK 10 Mbps ethernet AUI, LANCE AM7990
OS N/A (for the time being ...)
YEAR 1991
SPEED about 6 VAX MIPS
POWER CONSUMPTION (MAX.) 180 W
COMMENTS This server system will run either OpenVMS, VAXELN or NetBSD. It doesn't run ULTRIX. Support for the MicroVAX 3100 M30 was added in VMS 5.5.
ESTIMATED PRICE '91 $8,000
ORIGINAL PRODUCT DESCRIPTION (Scanned from DEC's SOC Nov. 1992) N/A
*= SOC, in this context, means "System On a Chip", designed for low cost VAXen.

System console photo


The above screenshot is from the system console terminal, in this case a DEC VT 510.

History and other comments

I got this machine from Germany in the beginning of 2008. The MicroVAX 3100 series VAXen are the smallest of all MicroVAXen.

You can see that all 6 memory slots are occupied with single sided DEC proprietary ECC SIMMs (MS44-AA) 6 x 4 MB = 24 MB, plus the system board has 8 MB soldered on, in front of the SIMMs and the black connectors, so total RAM is 32 MB:

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Last updated:  18-7-2008