Hi Fritz,
Congratulations on your 'new' computer!
the website:
http://www.vaxarchive.org has a bunch of information
about VAXes, including pinouts for the console cable, and what
the little display means. As a hint, the little display should
start at 'F', count down to '6', pause for a while (several
minutes if you have lots of RAM), then down to '0'. If it stops
anyplace forever, you have a hardware problem. I don't remember
what the 'A' status means...
Good luck,
clint
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Fritz Chwolka wrote:
> Hi...
>
> now I cleaned the vaxstation II/GPX and I want to make it a runable system. I own no monitor but on the
> powerconnectorside there are a lot of dsub connectors and switsches and a onedigitdisplay.
> Can someone explain them and the
>
> If I fire the vaxstation on the systemdisplay shows an A and then seemd to wait. Nothing goes on and no
> harddisk is aktive. The light on the powerswistchside are in ready mode.
>
> So bonnecting a serial cable to the CPU status connector diesn't work nd it seemd as I must make a
> DEC-like cable for it.
>
> Thanks for help.
>
>
>
>
> Greetings from
>
> Fritz Chwolka - Duisburg
> / collecting old computers just for fun at www.alterechner.de \
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Received on Wed Oct 25 2000 - 19:12:12 BST