Upon the date 05:13 PM 9/15/99 -0400, cem14(a)cornell.edu said something like: Hi Carlos, from how you speak below it sure shows you do have no experience whatsoever <g>! But we'll help fix that problem! You've actually got a nice box (provided it still functions) that will be rather fun to learn VMS or ULTRIX upon (if it still has either of those OS's running on it). NetBSD is also available. Your homework for tonite will be to study http://anacin.nsc.vcu.edu/~jim/mvax/mvax_faq.html which contains much about the MVII's. Another URL which has MVII bits is: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/jmcm/www/info/info.html (aka ASUBI). I've got an MVII that I've been working on upgrading the hard disk to an RD54. I haven't had time to touch it since last winter as I've had a heap of other projects more important. But I'm salivating at the thought of getting her up and running with OpenVMS during the next winter sometime :) The other DEC friends here have already given you some other important comments and I'm sure a few more of us will chime in. Have fun with it! Incidentally, for you other DEC mavens, I tried reviewing the VAXArchive at http://vaxarchive.ml.org/ but it seems to be either relocated or not available anymore. I felt it was a good VAX info resource. "Unable to find the server vaxarchive.ml.org" is the message thrown back which suggests it's MIA. Could anyone confirm? Regards, Chris -- -- Christian Fandt, Electronic/Electrical Historian Jamestown, NY USA cfandt(a)netsync.net Member of Antique Wireless Association URL: http://www.antiquewireless.org/