Well, I got bored tonight and pulled out a DECserver 200/MC that somehow
ended up with many months ago. First thing was take a scredriver to it
(it was quite noisy and I figured I should probably figure out what the
obstruction was). Well, the obstruction was, well, dust. Although I'm
not writing this message to talk solely about dust, this was some
interesting stuff. From the looks of it either this thing had been
in/near a fire or it's administrator smoked at an unhealthy rate. Very
black and very plentiful. Also very difficult to remove (extremely fine).
Removing most of it made it quieter.
Anyway, what can I do with this thing? I don't have the boot images for
VMS, nor do I currently have a running VMS machine.
When I turn it on, the D1 light turns on, followed shortly by the D2
light, and the D3 flashes when it's transmiting. And there's MOP packets
on the ether, so I must assume it's in working order. Eventually, the D3
light starts flashing constantly and D4 starts flashing every half-minute
or so.
I don't suppose there's any way to do IP, is there? One thing I was
suprised to see in there was the face of a big original package 68k. It
might be interesting to write a custom boot image. :)
In any case, does anyone have a copy of the boot image for when I get a
VMS machine back to being functional again?
af
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afritz_at_iname.com | can only wish they were.
http://delphid.ml.org/~afritz/ | -- Chicago Reader
http://www.pst.com/ | 15 Oct 1982
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