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Article #961Re: VS2000 operator console
From: Andrew Poling
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 1989 00:48
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 1989 00:48
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In article <1671@ultb.isc.rit.edu> awpsys@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Andrew W. Potter) writes: > >Does anyone know how to redirect the console of a VAXStation 2000 >(OPA0:) to one of the async ports? We have a spare VS2000 without a >monitor that we want to use as a simple pcsa server and would like to >use it as a simple microvax. The VS2000 is a one plane monochrome. No problem - go get yourself a console cable for a Microvax and plug it into the printer port. A cold boot will find your terminal being used as the console. I should note that my Ultrix 3.0 vs2000 decided to ignore completely the VR260, keyboard, and mouse when I did this - even though they remained attached. I seem to remember reading somewhere that a console cable is a printer cable with certain pins shorted for recognition. -Andy Andy Poling Internet: andy@gollum.hcf.jhu.edu Network Services Group Bitnet: ANDY@JHUVMS Homewood Academic Computing Voice: (301)338-8096 Johns Hopkins University UUCP: mimsy!aplcen!jhunix!gollum!andy
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!jhunix!ecf_hap From: ecf_hap@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Andrew Poling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Subject: Re: VS2000 operator console Summary: just use "console" cable Keywords: VAXstation, console Message-ID: <3460@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> Date: 1 Dec 89 00:48:49 GMT References: <1671@ultb.isc.rit.edu> Reply-To: ecf_hap@jhunix.UUCP (Andrew Poling) Followup-To: comp.sys.dec Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF Lines: 23