< At any rate, are the female DB-25 bulkhead connectors true RS-232 or som < weirdie mutation like the console DB-9 port? No, the PC DB9 is the mutant. ;) The DB25s are true RS232 with full handshake. < Also, I've got a DECMate III in the garage with no monitor or keyboard. < But it's got an RX50 and some RD series drive. Obviously the RX50 can b < moved to the MVII since it doesn't have one (but does have an RQDX3) but < what about the RD series hard disk? I'd like to put it on the MVII for < extra storage capacity but I seem to recall from playing with the The RD can be used but you'll need the customer formatter to format it for the RQDX3 instead of the DMIII controller. < Also, although it includes Macro (of course) it includes NO other < language development tools. Apparently it was a turnkey type system for No basic? < reading utility meters. Field service last logged-in in '92!!! And it' < got 13000some blocks free on the disk. I'm tempted to get things like < the GNU C binaries for it etc etc...and I always give in to that sort of < temptation! =) More disk, need more disk. It's good little box. Add a scsi controller like the CMD units and hang a real good sides disk... and wheee. Allison