1 Feb
2002
1 Feb
'02
4:38 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: Pat Finnegan [mailto:pat@purdueriots.com]
I also picked up its console cable and an LK-401 for
it, but
didn't see
its mouse laying around. :( Anyways, the 'console cable'
Relatively common, but DEC original. Don't plug a PS/2 mouse in! :)
connects to the
framebuffer and provides a modular jack (LK-401 im sure), an 8-pin
Mini-DIN (mouse?), and a single BNC connector. Does anyone
know of a sane
way to connect this to a garden variety monitor? Is it
really monochrome
as I suspect? The framebuffer cards are a M7168 and a M7169, so I
*thought* it would be 8-plane *color* graphics... but I guess
8-plane mono
is believable. Anywho, if the TK50 remains, it'll have to be the
framebuffer that goes away when I get that pertec card..
8-bit graphics would have a set of 3 boards. How many boards in your
framebuffer setup? If you have one, it's mono. Two is -- I think --
4 bit color.
I have no idea how to connect that to a monitor, nor whether you got
the right adaptor. If you have a mono board, it's easy ;) Otherwise,
maybe it's a composite signal of some sort.
One last thing... on VMS 1) how do I figure out the
size of the
hard-drives (like du on *nix), and 2) how do I mount a hard
Try "SHOW DEV D" (In english that's "give stats on all devices
beginning with D," I think)
disk without
knowing its label? The second ESDI drive doesn't get automatically
mounted when VMS boots.
The /OVER=ID option will do what you want.
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
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