MicroVAX 2000

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Tue Jun 23 00:03:54 1998

On Mon, 22 Jun 1998, Allison J Parent wrote:

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> If you put a terminal on the DB9 (ground pin 8 to 9) it will use a
> standard terminal (9600, 8,n,1). The Test 50 command will display ram
> installed and other data about the system.
 
> VMS and ultrix runs fairly well in 4 or more meg of ram NetBSD wants 8
> or more, 14mb is max.

It certainly seems to have a load of memory chips in it! But I didn't
really try to tally the total amount.
 
> IT has a hard and a floppy controller on the board (the 60 pin connector).

Do you have a wiretable from the 60-pin to hard and floppy connectors?

> The biggest drive it knows is the RD54 (maxtor 2990) at 159mb. It can
> also format hard disks and DEC floppies rx50 <400kb dual 5.25> or RX33
> <1.2mb, 5.25>.

Got one of those drives around here, I'm sure.
 
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> The 318mb of local disk is 2 RD54s.

Ah so!
 
> 25 pin is modem. 15 pin is CRT/keyboard/mouse, 9pin is serial printer
> or console. The MMJ adaptor bring out the serial printer, mouse and
> keyboard lines to RS423 serial lines for terminals (ala dec vt320).
> That MMJ adaptor is removeable (two screws). Network is on the AUI or
> BNC connector and is eithernet (10base2).

That 15-pin CRT/keyboard/mouse sounds an awful lot like the Rainbow
setup. Could I be so lucky?
 
> They are common as house flies and as small vaxen go pretty useful and fun
> to run as they really don't use much power.

Heh heh! Hope they are not the nuisance that house flies are!
 
Thanks Allison!
                                                 - don
Received on Tue Jun 23 1998 - 00:03:54 BST