6 Feb
2003
6 Feb
'03
5:20 a.m.
Fred N. van Kempen wrote:
All,
A strange find today, in the pile of stuff-to-figure-out.
See attached pictures. Its one of those little option cards that
fit in the VS2000's "pizzabox" expansion unit. I have two of these
machines, both have the box. One of the machines is a VAXserver
2000 (!), and that one had this card. One single flatcable going
to the machine's mainboard (connector on the side of the mainboard,
above the power supply) and it has the usual DEC 3-row connector
on the outside faceplate.
What's this? Serial line expander of some sort? The X.25 thing I
heard about?
Larger pictures available at 1600x1280 and 1280x1024.
I'd guess it is the additional serial port card.
The complete kit would have a cable and a harmonica box,
to give an additional 8 serial lines.
If it boots VMS, you can look at a show device listing
to see if it shows an additional 8 TX(?) lines.
That would tell you for sure.