RS2030 MIPS workstation

[Warner Losh]

On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 9:42 AM Al Kossow via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:

>
>
> On 5/4/19 3:00 AM, Pete Turnbull via cctalk wrote:
>
> > Once I can get the machine to stop wailing, that will be useful!
> >
>
> I pulled the frame buffer out of my 2030 and got up as far as the
> monitor on port 0 at 9600. My NVRAM is dead so I'm digging around
> trying to find another DS1287. The machine has an XE1287 in it and
> the battery terminals don't seem to be on the pin 12-13 end like the
> Dallas.
>
> I ordered a DEC BC29 cable to play with the frame buffers on the
> machines that I still have.
>
> Also, looking at the driver code it looks like the keyboard on the 2030
> expects to be XT protocol.
>

When I played with mine years ago, the only thing different about it was
that it had a different device ID than expected. I had to hack FreeBSD of
the era to recognize that keyboard id correctly. Don't know if I ever tried
the opposite way or not.

Warner