The World's First MicroVAX II Museum
One of the DSVAX III‘s 220V cooling fans failed short and has blown the main 5A fuse, so it was time to take the QBUS enclosure apart and replace it. It was a good opportunity to replace the fuse holder (lid kept falling off) and the key switch, which has failed open. Interesting things lie…
At long last JANE, a MicroVAX II companion to TARZAN, is ready! JANE is a custom-built MicroVAX II computer. For a console, JANE has a built-in LCD VGA display and uses the enclosures’ USB port to connect to a USB keyboard. This makes it possible to do work or just monitor JANE without a need…
For years I wanted to have a MicroVAX II that would be livingroom-friendly, i.e. quiet and nice to look at.After about a month of construction, two power supplies, three custom PCBs and six quiet fans, the homebrew MicroVAX II is ready.
Several recordings of MicroVAX II’s in BA123/BA23 and other enclosures in captivity.
The VT320 terminal has a “width” adjustment coil – but on one of my terminals at least it coil does not offer a very good range. Something degraded (or de-magnetized) over the years and made the display much narrower than it should (has been). L201 is an adjustable coil marked “WIDTH”. It is placed in…