31 Mar
2016
31 Mar
'16
11:27 p.m.
On 01 April 2016 at 03:45 Pete Lancashire <pete at petelancashire.com> wrote:
Won the guy on the big auction site, put the minimum bid down and $50
later
it showed up on the doorstop.
http://petelancashire.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=6027
Sorry for the bad photo's but the sun was going down fast.
Been trying to find the display interface specs, pinout, freqs, etc. but
so
far have been overwhelmed with just about everything else.
Other things I guess I'll need are
Also what keyboard should I be looking for ?
What options do I have for an O/S ?
The last time I logged into a VAX was one of many 11/780s the company I
worked for was like 198? something.
A LONG time ago ..
-pete
To get started you don't need a display or a keyboard. As long as you have some
DECconnect serial cable and an adapter (see Hoff's site for details:
http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/467), then you can connect it to a terminal
emulator on a PC. You need to switch the machine to console mode (can't remember
the official name) though. To do that there is a small switch on the back. In
this picture http://petelancashire.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=6056 it is in
the small hole immediately to the left of the diagnostic LEDs.
You won't get a graphics display, but at least you can start setting it up.
Regards
Rob