MicroVAX-II questions

Thanks, Bill! Just got home with my brand-spanking-old MVII and set about playing with it. It's indecently clean inside, cables all in good shape, fans all free and clean, cards well seated. I even managed to get them all back in properly, in order, and the cables connected right. So let me see if I got this right, as this is the first working QBus system I've gotten: Boards, in order: M7606-AF MV-II CPU (KA630-A) w/1M RAM & serial console line M7608-BP 4M RAM card for KA630 M7609-AH 8M parity RAM " " M7504 DEQNA ethernet M7546 TQK50 tape controller M9047 Grant card M8053 DMV11 Serial controller M3104 DHV11 8-port async serial DMA mux 2x M3107 DHQ11 " " " " " Storage: 2x RD53-A 70M Micropolis 1325 RD54 190M Maxtor XT-2190 TK50 95M CompacTape drive This means I would, if I had the distribution hardware for the DHQ11s, have 25 serial interfaces? (plus console) What exactly is the DMV11? "Synchronous communications controller" sounds like it requires a DMV11 on the other end as well. Everything VMS I've looked at says the DEQNA is unsupported in VMS unsupported as in "it don't work"? Am I stuck with NetBSD then? Does anyone know if NBSD will mop-boot over the DEQNA? I don't have VMS older than 6.2. Anybody have 2 breakout boxes for the M3107, and no M3107? We could equalize.... For that matter, if anybody needs the card, I'll just share. Oh yeah. It boots. VMS 5.2, but it's looking for the rest of a cluster, and apparently a lot of its filespace was remote. Bummer. Other than that, and the fact that I can't get it upstairs, it's a cool "little" box. You know you're over the edge when the lack of ethernet access in your garage is a problem. Doc