Hi , can you please give me the name of your desoldering station? I would like to buy one.

Reminds me of magnetic wrist bands for medical benefits in 80s.

Actually, many oscilloscopes come with a component tester like this already integrated, such as the Hameg 200 series.

Pro tip. You dont need a soldering iron. I find that it is much faster ans cleaner to just use a lighter to quickly melt the solder and help it fuse evenly with the wire. This especiallt works well with bigger wires

mmmhmmmm remove protection sheet...

Why is it so complicated if it just measures resistance?

Thanks!

Bro just cold soldered and acted like he did something 😂

THIS IS GENIUS

This z800 4 beeb will come ,what the problem

Thanks for that video (and your recommendation). The VAX 4000/705 is 5.6x faster than a VAX 4000/300, which was the first released VAX 4000 (but not the slowest) ;)

COMPAQ had been a very swanky Company in Computer Business with excellent Products in all Fields. In addition we have to be very grateful for it's engagement to make PC available and usable to the public and PC "Clone" standardisation by defeating IBM's arrogant Big Blue leadership politics.

What a swanky Compaq Monster Server. No wonder why Compaq Proliant was leader in Intel based Server realm that era. I got the RA4000 & RA8000 HSG80 FC storage arrays and the SP750 Workstation.

i can use Window 7 + 3ds Max + Vray to rendering?

Very cool! I love that era of DEC equipment.

i know this is a old video, but has anyone figured out how to turn these on and what modifications to make to get the 12v 200a out of it?

This video helped me to damage my battery. Thanks lot

Awesome to see these old workhorses... I sharpened my teeth on the VAX (starting with an 11/750) - but managed a number of them including a bunch of MicroVAX models. Great machines of the time.

it would have been nice to hear the cpu/gpu/memory supported models. other than that just a nice boring looking at junk.

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Thank you. Your logic and common sense makes sense.

That was oretty dumb, just take off the bracket and cut a notich for thw cf card. Its pretty easy.

The system board to disk tray cable is a bugger, there are also some rather sharp edges which caused many a swear word when I used to be a system manager on these things! Built like tanks though - wish I'd kept my VaxStation 4000/60. Worked on MicroVax 2000 all the way up to 7840's + many many Alpha systems. Loved em! OpenVMS still rules - far better than 'cooler OSes' that are about now & secure too - I should know, still in the IT game :-) The owners should make it far more available now its on x64 - I'd get a copy!

More than 34 year old Knippex chrome pliers made in *West Germany* but kept in the most perfect condition in typical German maintenance tradition.

Hi, could you sell / borrow / give the machine to another KZbinr, NCommander from New Yersey? He works on compiling and running the BSD operating system from source on a VAX machine.

I remember to wok with DEC Rainbow PC‘s which had the same nice and eye comfortable screen and the keyboard wich had a separate numeric pad in opposite of the IBM PC. Fortunately this layout made the throughput up to today. Nice video!

Always good to see the classics getting some near-museum treatment. Can't have these things going the way of far too many a few decades ago

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That probably should be sent to Usagi instead of being scrapped.

I've programmed all the Vaxen, from MicroVax to 8600 standalone and clusters. I wrote Vax/RDb, C , COBOL, and FORTRAN IV and Vax assembler, all 450 instructions of it. Ultrix and VMS. People must still use them for legacy apps because they go for thousands on Ebay.

Have you replaced the Dallas clock battery yet? I would have done that first. I guess I would have been wrong also. After that I would have assumed stiction on a drive (same as the other poster below mentions) that age. Glad it was something simple. When replacing a SMD component I prefer to hold it down with an xacto knife or similar instead of using tweezers. With tweezers the part will typically end up hovering over the board by the same amount it was when you pushed it down into the existing solder blobs on the board. When simply holding it down it'll be pushed down flat onto the board once the solder warms up. I knew a guy who used a MicroVAX back in the time of this device. I think it was a MicroVAX 2000. Something smaller than this.

@14:53 man, that is a lot of green bodge wires!

First thing I thought of was a bad disk. No idea why, I don't know enough about computers to know 😂 but I'm good with wiring.

You did it the hard way of plugging the SCSI cable into the mainboard while it was still connected to the drives on the drive tray instead of unplugging the SCSI cable from the drives and plugging the cable by itself into the mainboard without the drive tray in the way.

The initial not working when drives plugged in to power pointed directly at one of the drives having a shorted voltage line and not the power supply. Wy didnt you start with the actual problem in the first place as it was a dead giveaway?

Ah that dang magic smoke, it always appears any time I try to fix anything

Mein werter Herr, daß Einlöten des Tantalkondensators mit Heißluft hat bei mir Unbehangen ausgelöst.

That thing might sound like an airplane, but in reality, entire airports rely on machines like this one.

One of my favorite tasks, replacing capactiors in a DEC PSU ;) Frist I thought it is the same PSU as in a MicroVAX/VAXstation 3100/20, but after you opened it, I saw it is a further developed design.

I’ve had that happen with HDDs a few times over the years!

I recapped the supply in my 5150 recently- it was actually an OEM upgrade supply made by Astec which has universal voltage (85-265V) and active PFC. The PFC board, which had one electrolytic capacitor, was an absolute pain to remove. I also had to wait another week on a capacitor which I forgot to put on the order...

Nicely done. What is this machine used for these days?

when you said it was working two days ago, I thought that meant it had been in use until just now. 😅

You scrap 10 year old working servers all day and give a 30 year old broken server all this love and attention. Ageism in computers is a strange thing!