--- Allison J Parent <allisonp(a)world.std.com> wrote: I wrote: I didn't mention it, but yes, there is the three-port MMJ adapter. I have one or two. The max ports on a MicroVAX 2000 is indeed 12. The DEC hot sheets specifically mention that if you want more ports, you must go to an Ethernet-based product. That's how I got my first uVAX-2000 - a local law firm was looking at expanding their arrangement past ten users and a printer. I was brought in to spec an upgrade. When they saw the price, they switched to a Novell network (which is why my friend brought me in; he sold them the network). I was offered the system and I gave them a salvage price on it and ten VT-320's. They were horrified at the size of my offer and said that they could get a better deal somewhere else. A year later they called me back and asked if I still wanted it. I dropped the offer to lower than half of what it was previously and they accepted. Upon picking up the system, I drove across town, sold the terminals to a friend's company for 90% of the price of the lot and took home the VAX. I got an RD54, a 6Mb MicroVAX, a TK50Z-FA, the DHT32 serial adapter and an expansion box with RD53 for well under $100 (at the same time period, a refurbed RD54 was going for $500 from the resellers). I put Ultrix on it and used it for Unix practice and as a faux-terminal server. I had this project to mount the guts in a monsterous AT case so that there was room for both RD drives in the same package (two power supplies), but I never finished it. I'll probably put all the stuff back in the original boxes when I work that far down the pile. One problem I ran across with this particular box - the TK50 drive would munch tapes - the problem turned out to be the molex connectors on the drive motor cables. They would intermittently fail and the tape would spin freely in the drive or wouldn't energize to retract the tape. I lost more than one tape that way. I never did fix that drive - it's still awaiting new connectors. -ethan ===== Infinet has been sold. The domain is going away in February. Please send all replies to erd(a)iname.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. All in one place. Yahoo! Shopping: http://shopping.yahoo.com