MicroVAX/VAXstation 2000 (was Re: Back from the fleamarket)

From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Sun Jul 1 20:39:17 2001

Ethan Dicks skrev:

>--- 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.

List, what do you say?

>> >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.

But wouldn't I then need a clip-on piece on the D-subs for those annoying DEC
modular plugs?
And there's still the power question.

>> 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.

It's a 1024?864, I think.

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