VAXStation 2000 SCSI (Was: TK50Z-GA and MicroVax 3100/90?) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

23 May 2002

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  -----Original Message-----
 From: Ethan Dicks [mailto:erd_6502@yahoo.com] 
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  I'm sure that Ethernet was standard on the
VAXstation 2000.  I have at 
I didn't know that.

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  least one MicroVAX 2000 - it has the DHT32 8-port
serial option, but 
I've seen two, both with ethernet.

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  did not come with Ethernet.  It came out of a law
office that had
 terminals on everyone's desk (I got it when they asked their support
 guys how much it would cost to add another 8 terminals - they went
 with PC-XTs...) 
Funny and tragic at the same time.

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  > Wolfgang Moeller's SCSI drivers for these
systems.  (Which I've not
 > tried yet, but will eventually... 
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  I haven't tried that either.  I got it as patches,
but not patches
 to my version of the ROMs.  I got them as a solid block of code to
 be split into ROM images, but haven't played the swapping game to
 figure out which ROM works in which socket.  :-( 
Hmm -- he also has a "boot disk" that will supposedly make them work
without patching the ROMS, or you can install the driver into a VMS
system on an MFM disk, and still use SCSI disks, without either the
boot disk or the ROM patch.

Wolfgang is a helpful guy, and last I talked to him I got the 
impression that he'd very much like to see somebody other than himself
use them ;)

Chris

Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL

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