On February 1, Pat Finnegan wrote:
> 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' 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..
That frame buffer is a VCB02, or QDSS. M7169 is the smarts, and M7168
is a memory board. You can have one or two M7168s, each gives you
four bitplanes...so you have a 4-plane framebuffer. This can drive a
color monitor for 16 colors or a mono monitor for 16 levels of gray.
Which monitor you can drive depends on the cable. From your
description, you have a grayscale cable, used with, for example, a
VR160 monitor. A color cable will have three BNCs. I've found the
grayscale cables to be somewhat rare.
I wouldn't bother trying to drive a VGA monitor with this. Proper
DEC monitors are relatively easy to find, and I find them to be of
much higher quality than all but the most expensive PeeCee monitors.
> 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 disk without
> knowing its label? The second ESDI drive doesn't get automatically
> mounted when VMS boots.
1) $ show dev du/full
2) $ mount du?/override=id
(where "?" is the unit number)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf
Received on Fri Feb 01 2002 - 13:46:43 GMT