VAXstation 5000

Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 16:02:26 -0500 From: "Claude.W" <claudew(a)videotron.ca> Subject: Flea Market finds...: VAX 5000/200 point me to a faq please... Vax Station 5000/200 with 32Megs (?) $5 Can someone tell me more about the VAX? I know nothing about these things. Either point me to a good faq or a manual or just tell me how to check this thing out...I searched the net and after 20 minutes found close to nothing about this thing...the compaq site is a maze.... Unit powers on PS fans (3!) spin. Small leds in back (6?) near ports seem to cycle through in a "logical and non erratic way" at start up... There are 4 large memory boards. Counting the chips I suspect these boards hold 8 Megs each...4 boards...32Megs...built in ethernet from what I can see... Slot -0- in back does not have a cover anymore. There is nothing there...I suspect this held a video card (?) can I still hook this up headless to a terminal? I connected my trusty Wyse60 to this and after a short "POST" I get...: ?IO 5/rzl/vmunix (bb rd) Returns bring more >> prompts so I am talking to the box...So I guess it works... The thing has no floppy or keyboard connector...Just a SCSI port....how does it boot? -- from scsi cdrom? (linux something to try on this I suspect...?) Sorry about the questions but I know nothing about these VAX boxes... Thanks for the help Claude claudew(a)videotron.ca Claude, this is from memory so I'll put percentages of reliability next to each statement- 1- These machines were designed to run Ultrix (A flavor of UNIX sold by DEC) and will not run VMS (100%) 2- I think they're MIPS-based machines (80%) 3- There might be a BSD for them (30%) If you really need come up short I've got Digital Systems & Options catalogs back to 1993 and can get you some information about options but not detailed config/setup stuff. WWWebb ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.