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Please help with Vax Station

#2807
From: Dennis Gray Jr.
Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1992 06:17
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Hello Vax experts!

I just received a Vax Station II and I have several problems, and most
likely more that I don't know about...

First, this machine doesn't have any monitor or terminal.  So this
brings up two questions:

	Can I get a graphics monitor and keyboard for it? And if
	so, what is the part number?  More information on this set
	up:  The "card" for this is in slot "b" in the case.  There
	are two 15 pin sockets on it, one male one female.  Connected
	to the back of it there are two wires going to one of the
	plane -- one is a 20 pin ribbon cable, the other is a single
	wire that has a single pin going to a plane.  Written on the
	card it says "50-16468-01-C1" and "QVSS PATCH PANEL".  Any
	information you have on what this is, or what I can put on it
	would be greatly appreciated.

	Can I hook up a PC to be a dumb terminal to this?  I think the
	other card is applicable here:  Two dials, a switch, a 9 pin
	male connector and an LED readout.  The switch has two
	positions: one is labeled as a cirle with a dot above it, the
	other has a circle with the dot in it -- the latter also has a
	circle with an equilateral triangle in it.  One of the dials
	has three positions: one with an arrow pointing to the right,
	one with an outline of a face profile, one with a circle that
	has a "t" in it (there is also an arrow pointing allong the
	circle's circumference).  The other dial has several positions
	and is labled "baud" -- each position is a baud rate.  When
	the machine is powered up the LED says "A".

There might also be a problem with the machine actually booting up.
Since I have no interface with the machine, I don't know what it
does...  I have a tape (TK50) with unknown contents.

Any help will be GREATLY appreciated.

Thank you,
-dennis
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Dennis Gray, Jr.                                        DGray@uh.edu
"You askin' to become a pile of zeros?  I could put you away so good
that Peter Norton couldn't find you with his arms unfolded."
			  - Lincoln Spector
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From: dgray@menudo.uh.edu (Dennis Gray Jr.)
Subject: Please help with Vax Station
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