25 Oct
2000
25 Oct
'00
12:12 p.m.
Hi Fritz,
Congratulations on your 'new' computer!
the website: http://www.vaxarchive.org has a bunch of information
about VAXes, including pinouts for the console cable, and what
the little display means. As a hint, the little display should
start at 'F', count down to '6', pause for a while (several
minutes if you have lots of RAM), then down to '0'. If it stops
anyplace forever, you have a hardware problem. I don't remember
what the 'A' status means...
Good luck,
clint
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Fritz Chwolka wrote:
Hi...
now I cleaned the vaxstation II/GPX and I want to make it a runable system. I own no
monitor but on the
powerconnectorside there are a lot of dsub connectors and switsches and a
onedigitdisplay.
Can someone explain them and the
If I fire the vaxstation on the systemdisplay shows an A and then seemd to wait. Nothing
goes on and no
harddisk is aktive. The light on the powerswistchside are in ready mode.
So bonnecting a serial cable to the CPU status connector diesn't work nd it seemd as
I must make a
DEC-like cable for it.
Thanks for help.
Greetings from
Fritz Chwolka - Duisburg
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