uVAX II alive

From: John Lawson <jpl15_at_netcom.com>
Date: Sun Sep 6 18:44:37 1998

   Well, I fired up my recently-acquired uVAX II/RC up this
afternoon, and whaddaya know... it boots!

  Thanks to the reams of information which I have dutifully stored
away, I was able to get the system passwords reset, and I have VMS
V5.4 signed on. Now I need that DECUS Hobbyist license.

  This machine originally booted into some kind of communications
software.. but it went by too fast to read much more than TCP/IP
and (I think) Excelan, or EXlan, or something....

  This Machine has 1 RD53, 1 TK50(?) and a Cipher Data flatbed 9trk
tape drive. (no floppy)

  The cartridge drive is not happy.. it will load the tape, but the
red load light stays on, and VMS reports "device not found", and
SHOW DEV shows it as unmounted.

  I would *really* like to discover how to mount/access the Cipher
drive.. I have VMS 4.3 manuals, but I haven't found the right info
yet on where to look for the device drivers and other procedures.
The Cipher came installed with this machine, so I'm assuming at some
point someone was using it... maybe. ;}

  ANYWAY: Thanks to Allison and Megan for various bits of wisdom
that I have vicariously snagged and now put to good use.

  Now to wedge this thing into the rest of the gear in the Computing
Centre (AKA Rapidly Shrinking Living Room). Sigh. Why did it have to
be Minicomputers??? Why couldn't it have been Stamps?? Bottlecaps??
Toothpicks from Around the World?????


   Cheers

John
Received on Sun Sep 06 1998 - 18:44:37 BST