Ethernet *terminators*. As far as I can remember any VAXen I've played with that have built in ethernet want to either be plugged into a ethernet network or have one of these attached, otherwise they complain (I want to say they won't even boot, but it's been awhile, all my stuff is always plugged into the network). Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh(a)aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | healyzh(a)holonet.net (alternate) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |

----- Original Message ----- From: "Iggy Drougge" <optimus(a)canit.se> To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 3:30 PM Subject: RE: DEC DB15 "terminators" ethernet to AFAIK, they boot fine, but you'll get the "?? 1" error on boot and the system will drop the the ROM monitor.. it'll run, but you won't be able to autoboot. --Sean Caron (root(a)diablonet.net) | http://www.diablonet.net

Since somebody mentioned Radio Shack and we all share an interest in same I thought I'd bring up that the New York Times reported (sorry, yak) that the "Amateur Scientist" in Scientific American magazine is aparently getting dropped after ?50 years?. An obvious bummer for the >25% of us that were raised on it. The fellow that is it's current editor got the McArthur 'genius' grant of $300K so he won't suffer for a while. He was raised on Radio Shack as well... John A.