Welcome to Rosencrantz (“Rosie”), a public access VMS system and community. Rosie is powered by OpenVMS V7.3 on a VAXstation 4000 Model 60 operated by the SDF Interim Computer Museum. This system is available for use to all interested in vintage computing. Personal login accounts may be requested by Bootstrap- (or higher) level members of the ICM. See our website (https://icm.museum/join.html).

Rosencrantz is currently on its third “incarnation” (host hardware):

Rosie was initialized by the late Ian King for the PDP Planet project on a restored VAX-11/780-5 minicomputer running OpenVMS V6.2 (later updated to V7.3).

After PDP Planet became Living Computers: Museum + Labs, Rosie was moved from the VAX-11/780 to a VAX 7000 Model 640 minicomputer by Josh Dersch and Stephen Jones in order to provide a nicer experience for Rosie's users.

After the closing of LCM+L, Rosie was transfered to the SDF Interim Computer Museum in 2024. Providing the three-phase power required by the VAX 7000 proved to be uneconomical, so Rosie was moved by Stephen Jones to its current host, a VAXstation 4000 Model 60.

For an introduction to using OpenVMS, see the OpenVMS Survival Guide.

Rosencrantz has a variety of tools for communicating with other members of the community.

The following programming systems are available on Rosencrantz.