DEC 3000 trouble

From: Tom Owad <owad_at_applefritter.com>
Date: Mon Aug 6 18:44:11 2001

This is likely off-topic - I have no idea how old the DEC 3000 is - but
I'm hoping it will fall cool hardware exception.

I think its either a model 600 or 700. At any rate, its very large and
is a tower design. I have not yet used the system and am trying to get
it to boot. I do not have a keyboard, mouse, or monitor for it, so I
need to connect via terminal, but am having som trouble.

For a terminal, I am using an Apple Powerbook G4 with ZTerm set to 9600,
8, n, 1. I'm using a Keyspan USB-Serial adapter and a null modem
adapter. I've connected my "terminal" to the 25 pin printer serial port
on the DEC 3000. I power up the DEC, it does its whirling and spinning
up, but I never get anything at all on my terminal. I've tried booting
with the S3 switch (whicdh I understand is supposed to change from kb/
mouse/monitor to console mode) in both directions, but to no avail.

The LED on the front reads "FD". It's possible that the RAM I have
installed (which I got from another DEC 3000) is not appropriate for the
system.

Any suggestions on what I need to do to get this to work are very much
appreciated. This is completely out of my area of expertise and I hate
to keep power cycling the DEC while I experiment.

Thanks!

Tom

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Received on Mon Aug 06 2001 - 18:44:11 BST