Need help bring up alternate console on DS 5000

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From: Steven Rodrigues
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 1992 21:39

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We've got a couple of brand-spanking-new DECstation 5000/240's , and 
no monitor. So, we're trying to bring up a Wyse terminal as our system 
console, but no matter what we do, nothing seems to work. The terminal
stays dead as a doornail.

We have tried communications port 2 and 3. We've tried typing blindly.
We also have tried pulling the keyboard cable, but we don't have a 
terminator for that port.

We are also at our wit's end.

Does anybody have any experience with this or some helpful suggestions?

Thanks very much,
Steve Rodrigues
& others

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From: steverod@helma.cs.rice.edu (Steven Rodrigues)
Subject: Need help bring up alternate console on DS 5000
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Summary: No monitor, and we can't get the !#$%#@ terminal to respond.
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Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 21:39:00 GMT
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