--- Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se> wrote:
> Ethan Dicks skrev:
> >> >Probably, but no TK50, then, and no possibility to patch the ROMs and
> >> >use the SCSI interface as a real SCSI interface
> >>
> >> That would of course be nice, but is there such a patch?
>
> >Yes. I have it, but have yet to get the ROMs in the right sockets.
>
> I went through what seemed like ten thousand MVAX2k pages and not a single
> mention of any such thing ever being implemented. This list is truly useful.
I think I learned about it through this list, but I could be mistaken.
> >It's not piranha-eaten... you just only have one part out of several...
> Yep, but then comes PSU, and a proper case. I could scrounge together a hard
> drive, keyboard and a mouse, could steal a monitor and its cable (assuming
> compatibility).
If you want to use it as VAXstation, yes, you need all of those. If you
want to use it as a MicroVAX, you wouldn't need the mouse/keyboard/cable.
> Is there always a dormant graphics adaptor on the board,
> regardless of whether it's an MVAX or a VS2000, or would that have to be
> added, like ethernet?
There is a default frame buffer. I have never used it so I don't know
its resolution, scan-rate, etc. It is active when the jumper says to be
a VAXstation, and not active when the jumper says to be a MicroVAX.
-ethan
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Received on Sun Jul 01 2001 - 10:01:20 BST