Question about DHQ11-Ms

From: Wirehead Prime <wirehead_at_retrocomputing.com>
Date: Tue Aug 18 18:24:44 1998

I have a pair of DHQ11-Ms in my MicroVax II. I've been fooling around
with connecting one of the ports to my little Livingston terminal server
so I can telnet to it. Alas, I left my breakout box at work!

At any rate, are the female DB-25 bulkhead connectors true RS-232 or some
weirdie mutation like the console DB-9 port?

Also, I've got a DECMate III in the garage with no monitor or keyboard.
But it's got an RX50 and some RD series drive. Obviously the RX50 can be
moved to the MVII since it doesn't have one (but does have an RQDX3) but
what about the RD series hard disk? I'd like to put it on the MVII for
extra storage capacity but I seem to recall from playing with the
MicroPDP I used to have that formatting etc issues with RD drives on DEC
gear can be...uh...funky. Suggestions, advice?

I figure if I can get it hooked up to the terminal server it'll be alot
easier to seek help from more knowledgable individuals as I can ask them
to simply telnet into it and look around. =-D I did ALOT of Dibol
programming for my jobs on MicroVaxen back in 88-89 and alot of related
database work, and then Macro, Pascal, DCL etc in college on the 11/780
which was upgrade to an 8600 and later some weird little 4000ish creature.

But I never did that much administration work so I'm having ALL kinds of
fun trying to control myself from playing with things like authorize too
much. ;-D

Also, although it includes Macro (of course) it includes NO other
language development tools. Apparently it was a turnkey type system for
reading utility meters. Field service last logged-in in '92!!! And it's
got 13000some blocks free on the disk. I'm tempted to get things like
the GNU C binaries for it etc etc...and I always give in to that sort of
temptation! =)

Once I've got good backups, got it cleaned out suitably, got the meter
reading stuff turned off and removed, got security under my belt etc
etc...I'll probably just give away accounts to interested folks and leave
it on the terminal server 24/7. Maybe I can finally get my
Put-Obsolete-Machines-On-The-Net project going.

Thanks...

Anthony Clifton - Wirehead
Received on Tue Aug 18 1998 - 18:24:44 BST