On March 8, Doc Shipley wrote:
> Just got home with my brand-spanking-old MVII and set about playing
> with it. It's indecently clean inside, cables all in good shape, fans
> all free and clean, cards well seated.
Sounds like a girl I once knew.
> I even managed to get them all back in properly, in order, and the
> cables connected right.
This too.
> This means I would, if I had the distribution hardware for the DHQ11s,
> have 25 serial interfaces? (plus console) What exactly is the DMV11?
> "Synchronous communications controller" sounds like it requires a DMV11
> on the other end as well.
It's a sync serial interface...you'd connect it to a CSU/DSU and a
leased line, or something similar.
> Everything VMS I've looked at says the DEQNA is unsupported in VMS
> >v5.2. Is that unsupported as in "don't call DEC/Compaq/HP", or
> unsupported as in "it don't work"? Am I stuck with NetBSD then? Does
> anyone know if NBSD will mop-boot over the DEQNA? I don't have VMS
> older than 6.2.
DELQAs are fairly easy to come by. If you want one and can't find
one immediately, email me.
> Anybody have 2 breakout boxes for the M3107, and no M3107? We could
> equalize.... For that matter, if anybody needs the card, I'll just
> share.
I might have one of these, I will check. Email me if you don't hear
back about this by the end of the weekend.
> You know you're over the edge when the lack of ethernet access in your
> garage is a problem.
Nah...that's just a *start*.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL "Less talk. More synthohol." --Lt. Worf
Received on Fri Mar 08 2002 - 04:52:51 GMT