IBM PC Connecting to DECNET

[Warner Losh]

Speaking of DEPCA, does anybody (a) know what kind of mouse connects (the
docs just say DIGITAL MOUSE) and (b) know where to get one?

Warner

On Thu, Jun 2, 2022 at 9:47 PM Bill Degnan via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 2, 2022 at 10:09 PM Rick Murphy via cctalk
> <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> >
> > On 6/1/2022 12:49 AM, Glen Slick via cctalk wrote:
> > > No one ever called it a "Digital Ethernet Personal Computer Bus
> > > Adapter", just a DEPCA. I never previously knew that there was any
> > > meaning behind the DEPCA name.
> >
> > Yes, that's what it meant. "DELNI" - Digital Ethernet Local Network
> > Interface. "DESTA" - Digital Ethernet Station Termination Adapter. DELQA
> > - Digital  Ethernet Local Q-Bus Adapter (this one probably means
> > something else. Working?). DEMPR - Multi Port Repeater. DEREP -
> > Repeater.  And so forth. Yeah, nobody spelled it out, but those DExxx
> > names usually meant what the device was. DEBNT, DEUNA, DEQNA. Same
> > naming convention. I'm probably missing several.
> >      -Rick
> >
>
> I ended up getting it all working.   I found the DEPCA card I needed,
> the correct scripts now run, etc.  I tore down my VAX cluster some
> time ago, I would need to set up a new one, change the scripts to
> match the services available and the names to continue with this
> project.
>
> BIll
>