carrato@mhinfo.UUCP (Tony Carrato) (12/25/90)
A friend has a VAXstation 3100 (NOT a DECstation). He'd like to use the alternate console capability to boot it from a normal CRT AND be able to run the window manager (DECwindows) on the workstation display. He's working with Ultrix 4.0, to be upgraded to 4.1 soon. So far he is having no luck getting this to work. Any ideas greatly appreciated. Tony Carrato uunet!mhinfo!carrato
tihor@acf3.NYU.EDU (Stephen Tihor) (12/25/90)
Has he already gotten a BC008 or equivalent?
TO quote from the archives:
To connect a "normal" terminal as OPA0: on a VAXstation 2000, you need a 9-pin
female end for the VS2000 and RS-232 on the other. The pin configuration
is as follows:
9-pin: 3 2 7 6 8&9 jumpered
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V V V V
RS-232: 2 3 7 20
The magic info is the 6->20 and jumpering pins 8 & 9 on the 9-pin end.
Hope this helps.
Hunter
Thanks to Tom Sawyer, Clyde Digital, for calling enough people at DEC to get
a straight answer and not have to buy DEC's multi-dollar cable a while back....
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