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In answer to the questions posed by SBAILEY about the VAX 8700 console system:
(I could not send directly to SBAILEY...I got an unknow host from WISCVM)

        1) The PRO (a 380) runs P/OS...in other words it runs standard PRO
           software.  The console program is a PRO application.

        2) When the console dies...it dies and you have to call DEC F/S.
           From what I know the PRO is reliable.  The cable into the system
            is a 50(?) pin cable.

        3) Software for the console is Field Service (as always)  It comes on
           around 17-19 RX50 floppies.  The PRO comes with the software already
           loaded, so at least initially an hour+ is saved.

        4) Other suggestions:
                a) Get a printer-- an LA75 + appropriate cable.
                b) (Comment) The console system is the same for the
                   8500/8530/8550/8700/8800.

        This information is from my experiences with an 8500 delivered last
week.  The console manual is the same for all of the abve mentioned systems.
I hope this has helped.

        Just for the record the 82xx/83xx systems use a microcoded console
similar to the 11/750.

------- Robert Gerber           These opinions are not those of my employer or
        Comtex Systems          the client I am at.  However they may no be
                                mine either!

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