15 Sep
1999
15 Sep
'99
11:30 a.m.
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Jim Strickland wrote:
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)
Great! I needed to know that it was standard before I plugged anything in it.
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.
Unfortunately, there is nothing but the hard drive in the drive bays.
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.
As a matter of fact, the DB15F does have the interlocks found in AUI's.
Thanks again,
Carlos.