I thought this was interesting to watch. I’m not sure I could solder something this complicated, but it’s more fun living vicariously through someone who can accomplish it.
You can find the board over at putnamelectronics.com
Uh.. thanks?
Big data is watching.
I got this note from  Allen Garvin, that details his adventure in taking a stock 4.2BSD VAX image, getting it running on SIMH, and turning on the network stack.
Although 4.2 may have had security issues, (R Morris), and had some clear issues with scaling. Along with a whole host of other issues. Naturally if you want something more ‘robust’ on modern networks, you’ll want 4.3BSD which corrected quite a number of issues.
You can read about it over on his blog. It’s very good with step by step instructions, goes over retrieving the NIC driver, re-building the kernel, and getting it operational on our LAN.