[Simh] VAX 750 and 730 (was Is it possible to simulate the first Vaxen I ever used?)

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Mon Mar 23 16:20:31 EDT 2020


Bob, are we talking microcode source or binaries here?

I certainly have the binaries for the 86x0. I also previously pointed 
you to a person who had put at least the source for (I think) the I-box 
microcode for the 86x0 on the net, and he had more that he hadn't scanned...

   Johnny

On 2020-03-23 20:16, Bob Supnik wrote:
> One of the problems with simulating the non-VLSI VAXen, other than the 
> 780, is that the microcode is not available. Back at DEC, I had the 730 
> microcode in a huge notebook (it was 16KW), but I discarded it when I 
> moved out of Hudson and downsized my document collection. We really need 
> the microcode for the 750, 730, 8600/8650, 8200 (V11), and 8800.
> 
> The various microcodes may be available in the DEC fiche collection at 
> CHM, but I haven't been able to get out there to do the research, and 
> travel is out of the question right now.
> 
> /Bob
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