VAXStation 2000 SCSI (Was: TK50Z-GA and MicroVax 3100/90?)

From: Christopher Smith <csmith_at_amdocs.com>
Date: Thu May 23 11:56:01 2002

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ethan Dicks [mailto:erd_6502_at_yahoo.com]

> I'm sure that Ethernet was standard on the VAXstation 2000. I have at

I didn't know that.

> least one MicroVAX 2000 - it has the DHT32 8-port serial option, but

I've seen two, both with ethernet.

> did not come with Ethernet. It came out of a law office that had
> terminals on everyone's desk (I got it when they asked their support
> guys how much it would cost to add another 8 terminals - they went
> with PC-XTs...)

Funny and tragic at the same time.

> > Wolfgang Moeller's SCSI drivers for these systems. (Which I've not
> > tried yet, but will eventually...

> I haven't tried that either. I got it as patches, but not patches
> to my version of the ROMs. I got them as a solid block of code to
> be split into ROM images, but haven't played the swapping game to
> figure out which ROM works in which socket. :-(

Hmm -- he also has a "boot disk" that will supposedly make them work
without patching the ROMS, or you can install the driver into a VMS
system on an MFM disk, and still use SCSI disks, without either the
boot disk or the ROM patch.

Wolfgang is a helpful guy, and last I talked to him I got the
impression that he'd very much like to see somebody other than himself
use them ;)

Chris


Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL

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