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From: raj@netcom.COM (Roger Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: vax 11/730 and console
Keywords: DEC VAX CONSOLE DEAD
Message-ID: <1991Apr22.042328.6069@netcom.COM>
Date: 22 Apr 91 04:23:28 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  UNIX System {408 241-9760 guest}
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Greetings one and all.

I am the proud (?) owner of a DEC VAX 11/730 running VMS. I am having 
considerable difficulty with it now. Whenever I attempt to boot it up,
the screen comes up fine, but when time to input data, it refuses to
recognize anything. I've tried everything -- different terminals with
varying emulations, even hardwiring a PC to it == still no go.

My question is threefold:

	1) is this the appropriate conference to be posting this query.
	   if not, where?

	2) what hardware has gone bad?

	3) is there anyway I can acquire a boot tape that would bypass
	   the need for console input upon boot and initialize a remote
	   port?

     Thanks in advance. Please email replys to:
	raj@netcom.com
	     -or-
	apple!netcom!raj (for you with mailers like mine)....
c

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