New Buy & VMS help wanted

From: Christopher Smith <csmith_at_amdocs.com>
Date: Fri Feb 1 12:38:48 2002

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pat Finnegan [mailto:pat_at_purdueriots.com]

> I also picked up its console cable and an LK-401 for it, but
> didn't see
> its mouse laying around. :( Anyways, the 'console cable'

Relatively common, but DEC original. Don't plug a PS/2 mouse in! :)

> connects to the
> framebuffer and provides a modular jack (LK-401 im sure), an 8-pin
> Mini-DIN (mouse?), and a single BNC connector. Does anyone
> know of a sane
> way to connect this to a garden variety monitor? Is it
> really monochrome
> as I suspect? The framebuffer cards are a M7168 and a M7169, so I
> *thought* it would be 8-plane *color* graphics... but I guess
> 8-plane mono
> is believable. Anywho, if the TK50 remains, it'll have to be the
> framebuffer that goes away when I get that pertec card..

8-bit graphics would have a set of 3 boards. How many boards in your
framebuffer setup? If you have one, it's mono. Two is -- I think --
4 bit color.

I have no idea how to connect that to a monitor, nor whether you got
the right adaptor. If you have a mono board, it's easy ;) Otherwise,
maybe it's a composite signal of some sort.

> One last thing... on VMS 1) how do I figure out the size of the
> hard-drives (like du on *nix), and 2) how do I mount a hard

Try "SHOW DEV D" (In english that's "give stats on all devices
beginning with D," I think)

> disk without
> knowing its label? The second ESDI drive doesn't get automatically
> mounted when VMS boots.

The /OVER=ID option will do what you want.

Chris


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