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In article <1992Nov7.061724.21578@menudo.uh.edu>, dgray@menudo.uh.edu (Dennis Gray Jr.) writes:
> 	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.

  It's a QVSS, like it says. It's a bitonal (B&W only, no shades) card
which generates a 1024x864 image. Common monitors for this were the VR260
and VR262. The VR150 should also work. The cable that connects the patch
panel to the monitor is (I think) a BC18S-10 (that's from memory, I'm at
home). A LK201 keyboard (same as that on a VT2xx/3xx) plugs into the
cable assembly. A VSXXX mouse completes the system. An optional digitizer
tablet plugs into the other 15-pin connector.

> 	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".

  Yes. In order to make the serial port (the 9-pin connector, which BTW
uses a DEC pinout and not the PC pinout) the primary console, you'll
need to disable the video board. The easiest way is to just take it out
(you'll probably need to rearrange cards to maintain bus continuity).

  Of course, that will change your licensing model from a VAXstation to
a MicroVAX, so if you've got VMS V5.0 or newer on there you'll have a
problem.

  I think the machine is sitting there waiting for you to respond to a
question about national language which is displayed on the (missing)
monitor.

	Terry Kennedy		Operations Manager, Academic Computing
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