VaxStation 1, Mac 0...

Well, of all the VAX parts I got, I pieced together a VaxStation 3100 M38 w/32M RAM, the 2M 8Plane Video Card, RZ25L primary & RZ24L secondary drives (anyone have extra of those little H.D. rubber-bumper footie things??? ;-) and my buddy ordered the external SCSI cable necessary to run the CD-Rom... so I hooked it all up over the weekend, including a 20" sync-on-green Mac-based Philips multisync monitor, turned everything on, heard the beautiful hum of 2 hard drives and ..................... watched the monitor go all wacky because it couldn't sync up correctly to the DEC. :-( I could tell that the DEC was going thru diagnostics, because (from what I could see thru that earthquake of a display) it looked like the one-liner B...A...9...8... type of line I've heard folks describe here (but have not yet seen in captivity myself... ;-) So, I was just about to ask the list about how to go about hooking up a PeeCee monitor to a DEC, when my friend sent me an email for this system: DEC Alpha 3000 Model 300, 2 each 2Gig H.D., 64Meg RAM, 19" Monitor, all for $250USD. Everything I've seen so far makes this sound like a good deal, but I am assuming that: 1) the DEC monitor should sync up fine to the VaxStation... 2) I could pull 1 2Gig out and put it in a VaxStation... Or do I still need to figure out what kind of doohickey will make the DEC sync up to a PeeCee monitor? This is gonna be sooooo kewl... ;-) Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- Roger "Merch" Merchberger --- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers Recycling is good, right??? Ok, so I'll recycle an old .sig. If at first you don't succeed, nuclear warhead disarmament should *not* be your first career choice.