anyone do vaxstation repairs?

Hi Dan, Any chance you ever got up to Ottawa? I'm not a DEC repair guy, but I'm pretty good with these kinds of things, and I'd be happy to take a look at the systems for you. Re: Recovering your data... I'd probably install a fresh VMS on one of the working VAXen, and then mount your drive after the system is booted. I've found that booting a drive from one system on another doesn't always work all that well - depending on what hardware specific drivers are being loaded. Another thing you could do is read it into an image and access it under SIMH. Dave PS: You mentioned a "password problem" - it's not hard to recover the password on a VMS system when you have access to the hardware console... -- dave06a (at) Dave Dunfield dunfield (dot) Firmware development services & tools: www.dunfield.com com Collector of vintage computing equipment: http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/index.html