Ethan Dicks skrev:
>--- Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se> wrote:
>> Ethan Dicks skrev:
>>
>> >--- Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se> wrote:
>> >> Ethan Dicks skrev:
>> >> 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?
>Through this list, classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org. That's how I _thought_ I
>first heard of the SCSI patches to the KA410 ROMs. Perhaps I was mistaken.
I'm trying to get a confirmation from other list members. =)
>> But wouldn't I then need a clip-on piece on the D-subs for those annoying
>> DEC modular plugs?
>If you wanted more TTYs than the console, perhaps. Worst case, I suppose,
>you could build a level-converter board with a MAX-232 chip or 1488/1489
>or whatever (DEC also used 9636/9637 pairs IIRC) to go from the D-subs
>at the edge of the board to something more standard (the 15-pin connector
>does have two 3-wire serial connections - that clip-on piece converts them
>to RS-432 over DEC-MMJ)
RS-432 really won't do me any good. So, is there always an RS-323 console on
the DB25?
>> And there's still the power question.
>True. AFAIK, DEC used one type of PSU for all those cases, so the supply
>for an external RD54 or TK50ZFA could do the trick.
"Those"?
>
>It's a bunch of work, I'll admit, but it depends on how badly you want
>a VAX and whether or not you have alternatives. I certainly wouldn't
>do it if I had another VAX that worked.
Well, we have several. One MVAX II/GPX, one MVAX 3100 and one MVAX II whose
state is unknown for lack of time and interest (we're having enough trouble
with the DEQNA in our GPX).
And running such a machine without ethernet is no fun, I'm so spoiled
nowadays. =)
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Received on Mon Jul 02 2001 - 20:06:36 BST