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From: lumsdon@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil (Lumsdon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: VS2000 operator console
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Date: 13 Dec 89 21:29:03 GMT
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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.
>
>I known that the VS3100 systems have a switch.   Is there something
>similar on the VS2000s, or do I have to remove the graphics board?
>
>- Andy

If you take apart a VAXstation 2000, there's a switch inside that you
(whoops, a jumper) move to convert it to a MicroVAX 2000. It requires
serious disassembly of the box. After that, you can plug a DEC terminal
into serial port for the console.

You'll need a copy of a page from one of the manuals for th e machine.
I'm not sure where you can get one, however.

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Esther Lumsdon
David Taylor Research Center
Annapolis Lab  cm 301-267-3816   av 281-3816