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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)
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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

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