Find of the day

I'm sure you'll get better answers from this from the incredibly knowledgable DEC folks on the list, but since I'm here and they may not be until later, I'll give a stab at it. Dunno what the chips are, probably part of the vax chipset. That db9 is your console socket. It's a straight rs232 terminal port. The rotary switch (if memory serves) determines where in the boot cycle it goes to. In one position it stops at the >>> (bios, more or less) prompt. In another it autoboots the OS. I'm trying to remember if halt is on that switch or seperate, and I think it's separate. The dec memory board appears to be a 4 meg memory board. Since the machine can address only 16 megs of ram, and since if memory serves it has a meg on the mainboard, I'm going to hazard a guess here and guess the nemonix is an 8 meg memory board, giving you 13 megs total. Not a bad amount at all. The uVax2s that were part of a cluster I once ran ran VMS 5.5 in only 16 megs, and my vaxstation 3100 does 7.2 (I think) on 8 megs. Ultrix runs nicely in 13 megs, too, although compiling gcc took all day on the ultrix box with 13 megs that I tried it on. Not a clue here, although dec uses db15 for video on Vaxstation 3100s, so I suspect it's a graphics card. Yup. RD53 is an RLL 40 meg, I think. Not very reliable in my experience. Somewhere on the system is probably a tk50 tape drive, too. Slow and not very high density per cartrige, but they work. Any AUI ports in the back of the machine? Might be handy to know what, if any, ethernet it's got. It'll become important if you want to run VMS on it. -- Jim Strickland jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- BeOS Powered! -----------------------------------------------------------------------