New Buy & VMS help wanted - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

1 Feb 2002

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  -----Original Message-----
 From: Pat Finnegan [mailto:pat@purdueriots.com] 
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  I also picked up its console cable and an LK-401 for
it, but 
 didn't see
 its mouse laying around. :(  Anyways, the 'console cable'  
Relatively common, but DEC original.  Don't plug a PS/2 mouse in! :)

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  connects to the
 framebuffer and provides a modular jack (LK-401 im sure), an 8-pin
 Mini-DIN (mouse?), and a single BNC connector.  Does anyone 
 know of a sane
 way to connect this to a garden variety monitor?  Is it 
 really monochrome
 as I suspect?  The framebuffer cards are a M7168 and a M7169, so I
 *thought* it would be 8-plane *color* graphics... but I guess 
 8-plane mono
 is believable.  Anywho, if the TK50 remains, it'll have to be the
 framebuffer that goes away when I get that pertec card.. 
8-bit graphics would have a set of 3 boards.  How many boards in your
framebuffer setup?  If you have one, it's mono.  Two is -- I think --
4 bit color.

I have no idea how to connect that to a monitor, nor whether you got
the right adaptor.  If you have a mono board, it's easy ;)  Otherwise,
maybe it's a composite signal of some sort.

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  One last thing... on VMS 1) how do I figure out the
size of the
 hard-drives (like du on *nix), and 2) how do I mount a hard  
Try "SHOW DEV D"  (In english that's "give stats on all devices
beginning with D," I think)

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  disk without
 knowing its label?  The second ESDI drive doesn't get automatically
 mounted when VMS boots. 
The /OVER=ID option will do what you want.

Chris

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