Trash or Treasure?

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Mon Oct 2 07:42:40 2000

  I hooked up the box this weekend and it seems to work fine except that I
don't know any of the account names or passwords so I couldn't log on to
it. Can anyone tell me how to break into RSX-11M? I don't know anything
about RSX-11, are there any on-line references to it? I was able to set the
time and date and to tell it to verify the hard drive and it did that with
no problems. I also used the Help files extensively. Besides RSX-11M, it
also has a lot of Gen-Rad utilities installed. They also have a lot of help
files. Everything appears to work perfectly except for not being able to
log in.

    Joe

>
>On September 22, Joe wrote:
>> A couple of weeks ago I found a box in a scrap yard with a half height 8"
>> floppy drive it in. The box was marked "Gen-Rad" and looked like part of a
>> old piece of test equipment. I picked up the box just for the floppy drive
>> and brought it home. Today I started to take it apart and found that it was
>> made by Scientific Micro Systems and has a number of DEC cards in it as
>> well as a Maxtor XT-1085 hard drive. My question is what is it and weather
>> it's worth keeping or is it just good for parts?
>>
>> Here's the details; It's marked "Gen Rad 2295 Central Station" on the
>> front. The back is marked "Scientific Micro Systems" "model MDX01170".
>> It's about 9" w x 11" h x 17" deep. On the back it has eight DB-25m ports
>> on the back. They're marked "TZ0" through "TZ3", "LP0" and "TT0" through
>> "TT2". Inside it has a DEC M7957 quad board, a half size board made by
>> Sigma Information Systems Inc (connected to the TT* and LP0 ports), a half
>> size "Q RAM 11" board made by Clear Point (memory?), a DEC M 8186 half size
>> card, and a half size SMS card (1002001-0001/0004220-0001) that is also
>> connected via a jumper to the last card, a full quad size SMS card
>> (1001939-0001/0003770-0001). The last card has ribbon cables that connect
>> to the floppy and hard drive.
>>
>> Does anyone know what it is? Is it worth anything? FWIW I haven't tried
>> to connect a terminal to it yet but it appears to power up and boot.
>>
>> Joe
>
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