VSII/GPX joy (and minor annoyance)

Patrick Finnegan wrote: Thanks. I'd already had my hands on a MicroVAX II and a MicroVAX 3100, but those weren't my own. I basically just dusted them off, tried to boot them up once, wrote a catalog page and placed them in storage at the University's computer collection, so there wasn't much reason to get more involved with them. The MVII wouldn't boot due to a broken power supply and Tony currently talks me through finding the fault there :) And sometimes quite possible to repair in a makeshift clean box because the problem in most cases is just the sticky rubber bumper inside, as I've been reading. The ribbon cable interconnects between the VCB boards look a little frail and the connectors are so difficult to get at that I think I was already pushing my luck when I changed the board order. I also would like to keep all the boards in the machine and just have to plug in the user interface components when I get some. As I've said, I can get into the console by causing a Break condition and I don't _need to_ see the identification and countdown stuff. It was just a minor rant on what I would see as a desirable feature of the PROM code. I have since finished downloading NetBSD/vax 3.1. In order to make 'er boot that, I still need a MOP daemon that will run without me jumping through flaming hoops, i.e. under Win9x. I have found some old messages should meet these requirements, but his homepage www.pdp11.nl is down and, come to think of it, I don't remember seeing him on the list recently. Anybody know where the program can still be obtained? Search machines are coming up mostly blank. And more importantly, is Fred okay? -- Arno Kletzander Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! Ideal f?r Modem und ISDN: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer