I finally am almost within reach of getting my DEC 3000 300 working. A few years ago I foolishly purchased it without memory, thinking it would be a simple matter to inexpensively pick up some memory later. How wrong I was. Now I have purchased a DEC 3000 300X with 160MB memory with the intention of lending 32MB to the 300. Now I look at the back of the machine and my main question is what cable do I need to hook up my VT220, or my VT420, or what model monitor with keyboard and mouse is this thing supposed to work with? In a typical DEC fashion, in the manual they do not mention model numbers of monitor to go with it, but there are rough instructions that I may be able to follow to get dumb terminal console working. I would ideally like to have real monitor on 300X, VT420 on 300, leaving my VT220 free for my MicroVax II. Oh yeah, I have a TK50 in MicroVax II currently. I also have TK70 with correct controller board that I would like to put in its place. Friend who I acquired MicroVax II from claimed that I needed different cable to go from TK70 controller card to TK70 drive than cable for TK50. It looks to me like both cables have 26 pins in two rows of thirteen. I suppose one of the cables might not be straight through but have a twist/transposition of pins. Will my current cable work? Do I need a new one? Once I get it working, anyone want the TK50 drive and controller card? Bradley Slavik