VAX 11/730 quickie

[Jerome H. Fine]

 >On Sunday, February 21st, 2016 at 23:57:22 +1300, Mike Ross wrote:

>Well I haven't figured out exactly what the problem was but I'm
>embarrassed to report it was indeed serial comms finger trouble. I
>could have sworn that VT220 was fine and the cable wired correctly...
>but to cover all bases I tried it with a USB serial port on the Mac
>that sits in the lab.
>
>It worked.
>
>First time.
>
>CONV011
>
>Bugger me.
>
>http://www.corestore.org/730cons.png
>
>OK next is console tape... I have around 100 TU58 tapes. On close
>examination the collection contained ONE console tape... for an 11/750
>of course! So I'll be reaching for an emulator. Looking back at a long
>thread on vintage-computers last year it appears that tu58em had
>timing issues and was unusable on 11/730 but is now patched and
>working correctly... watch this space!
>
>Thanks for all the pointers.
>
>Mike
>
>>On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 1:09 PM, js at cimmeri.com <js at cimmeri.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>>On 2/20/2016 7:03 PM, Mike Ross wrote:
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>>
>>>I might just try all switches *closed* on the basis that maybe it was
>>>wired wrong but... no doesn't make sense; the system would have been
>>>operational when decommissioned; the switch settings as I received it
>>>must be valid...
>>>      
>>>
>>Make sure the switches are actually working.  Often, they're not.
>>
>>- J.
>>
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