28 Jun
2023
28 Jun
'23
1:16 a.m.
Anyone in MD got an AUI cable (few feet long) I can steal so I don't
have to remove the bolts from the Pro/380's Ethernet socket or the pins
on my 10bt ethernet MAU?
Friendly note: If you try to boot a Pro/380 running POS 3.2 with Decnet
installed and don't have the loopback plug the system will crash hard
with a numeric error on the display. Noted.
CZ
28 Jun
28 Jun
2:31 p.m.
I have a real DEC AUI cable and live in MD. I think it is 10 feet long.
Doug
On 6/27/2023 9:16 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
Anyone in MD got an AUI cable (few feet long) I can
steal so I don't
have to remove the bolts from the Pro/380's Ethernet socket or the
pins on my 10bt ethernet MAU?
Friendly note: If you try to boot a Pro/380 running POS 3.2 with
Decnet installed and don't have the loopback plug the system will
crash hard with a numeric error on the display. Noted.
CZ
2:44 p.m.
Keep in mind that a Pro does not accept a real AUI cable. It takes a cable with an AUI
connector (slide lock type) at the transceiver end, but a DA-15 connector with the
conventional screw fasteners as you'd find on a serial port for the computer end. If
you try a real AUI cable you're right back at the problem Chris was trying to solve,
which is that the connector has the posts for the slide lock, but the computer has the
nuts for the screws, and the connector can't mate because the two are in each
other's way.
aul
On Jun 28, 2023, at 10:31 AM, Douglas Taylor via
cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
I have a real DEC AUI cable and live in MD. I think it is 10 feet long.
Doug
On 6/27/2023 9:16 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
Anyone in MD got an AUI cable (few feet long) I
can steal so I don't have to remove the bolts from the Pro/380's Ethernet socket
or the pins on my 10bt ethernet MAU?
Friendly note: If you try to boot a Pro/380 running POS 3.2 with Decnet installed and
don't have the loopback plug the system will crash hard with a numeric error on the
display. Noted.
CZ
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