DECstation 5000/33  ("MAXINE" )

 
 
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General Technical Information

HOSTNAME HYDRA
SYSTEM CPU MIPS R3000 @33 MHz
CACHE (2nd, 1st D/I) 0 KB, 128 KB / 64 KB
RAM  40 MB (Max. 40 MB)
DATA BUS WIDTH 32 bit
SCSI BUS 1 x SCSI-2 (5 MB/s)
OPTION BUS 2 x TurboChannel slots @12.5 MHz
GRAPHICS Onboard 8-plane 1024x768 @66Hz, PMAG-E TurboChannel option,  24-plane 1280x1024 @66Hz
HARD DISK DRIVE 6.4 GB 5400 RPM Quantum Fireball and 9.1 GB 10K RPM Western Digital SCSI disks
NETWORK 10 Mbps AUI (onboard ethernet)
OS DEC ULTRIX V4.5
YEAR 1991
SPEED about 27 VAX MIPS
POWER CONSUMPTION (MAX.) 343 W
COMMENTS This machine runs ULTRIX smoothly. It can't take much RAM but ULTRIX doesn't need that much. Support for the MAXINE (equipped with an R3000 processor) was added in ULTRIX 4.2A.
ESTIMATED PRICE '91 $30,000
ORIGINAL PRODUCT DESCRIPTION (Scanned from DEC's SOC Nov. 1992)

Bootlog Information


Ultrixboot - V4.5  Thu Sep 14 07:07:42 EDT 1995

Loading 3/rz3/vmunix ...

Sizes:
text = 1464576
data = 225376
bss  = 452176
Starting at 0x80030000

ULTRIX V4.5 (Rev. 47) System #1: Fri Jan  1 01:23:21 EET 1999
real mem = 41943040
avail mem = 34492416
using 1024 buffers containing 4194304 bytes of memory
DECstation 5000 Model 33 - system rev 48
64Kb Instruction Cache, 128Kb Data Cache
cpu0 ( version 3.0, implementation 2 )
fpu0 ( version 4.0, implementation 3 )
HBA 'PMAZ-BA ' and DME 'PMAZ-BA ' attached on Controller 0.
asc0 at ibus3
rz3 at asc0 slave 3 (QUANTUM FIREBALL ST6.4S  0F0C)
ln0 at ibus3
ln0: DEC LANCE Ethernet Interface, hardware address: 08:00:00:00:00:00
scc0 at ibus3
fd0 at ibus3
dti0 at ibus3
Sun Nov 16 18:37:55 EET 2003

History and other comments

This machine was imported from the U.S. in March 2003. I bought it because I wanted to complete my collection with a Personal DECstation. The MAXINE seems to have the smallest DECstation motherboard ever made.

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Last updated:  13-8-2006