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From: bellman@lysator.liu.se (Thomas Bellman)
Subject: Re: scsi this...
Organization: Lysator Academic Computer Club, Linkoping University, Sweden
Distribution: comp
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 18:02:28 GMT

James S. Vera (vera@fanaraaken.Stanford.EDU) writes:

> I believe our Sequent will be turning 10 this year.  She's an oldie.
> In fact we upgraded from the National CPUs (32016s?).  I wouldn't
> think it matters but our SCSI drive has its own power supply.

Quite an oldie.  Ours is not quite seven years.  A note on the
back says "25 OCT 85", serial no 8559, and we still have the
ns32032 CPUs.

>> That's why I am suprised that you were able to do it.  But what do I
>> know, I'm still running Dynix V3.0.17.

> %cat /etc/motd|head -1
> DYNIX(R) V3.0.17.9 NFS  #3 (root): Thu Mar 26 18:25:43 PST 1992

What do you mean *still* running 3.0.17?
$ cat /sys/dynix/conf/vers.c
char version[] = "DYNIX (TM) V2.1.1  #1 (pen): Sat May 19 19:45:37 PDT 1990\n";

Our hardware can't run anything newer.  And, no, our computer
club can't afford a SCED card from Sequent that would enable us
to upgrade to Dynix 3.  Well, anyway, with a little luck we will
have a SCED card in a month or two that someone might donate to
us.  (And perhaps an entire Balance 8000 attached to it :-)


--
Thomas Bellman,   Lysator Academic Computer Club,   Linkoping University
"We don't understand the software, and         !  Sweden ; +46-13 177780
 sometimes  we don't understand the hardware,  !  Bellman@Lysator.LiU.Se
 but we can *see* the blinking lights!"        !  Make Love - Nicht Wahr
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
From: pen@lysator.liu.se (Peter Eriksson)
Subject: Our Balance dies 10 seconds after going to Multiuser
Keywords: balance hardware problems
Organization: Lysator Academic Computer Society, Linkoping University, Sweden
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 11:32:22 GMT

Our Sequent Balance 8000 has dveloped a strange problem. Circa 10 seconds
after the "login:" prompt when going to Multiuser at reboot the first
of our 12 CPU's LED goes on, and then another CPU goes "on", one every
second or so until all 12 are lit. And then it is stone dead...

Have anyone experienced something like this? If I don't go up multiuser
but do the following in singleuser:

  online -a
  fsck -p
  mount -a
  ifconfig se0 130.236.253.2 up arp -trailers
  /usr/sbin/syslogd &
  /usr/sbin/inetd &

Then I can log in just as normal via the network... And the machine seems
to be working just fine (haven't stresstested it though).

An idea I got was that perhaps it was one of the 16-port TTY cards that
had gone bad (sitting on the multibus). But can that really make all the
CPU:s to hang?

/Peter




--
Peter Eriksson                                              pen@lysator.liu.se
Lysator Academic Computer Society                 ...!uunet!lysator.liu.se!pen
University of Linkoping, Sweden                           I'm bored. Flame me.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sequent
From: remco@cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Remco Moolenaar)
Subject: Problem with pdbx
Organization: Dept. Computerwetenschappen K.U.Leuven
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 12:00:59 GMT

Dear netters,

When I'm debugging a parallel C program and want to look at the contents of
variables on processors other than the first processor, I sometimes get the following
reply:

can't read from data address 0x2f000000

What could be the problem ?

Configuration:
   Sequent Symmetry
   Number of PE's = 8
   DYNIX V3.1.4 NFS
   Debugger: pdbx

The processes read and write from a shared global memory, which is allocated by
the first processor before the 'm_fork()'.
I still can step through my program, but I can't print values.


Thanx in advance.

-- 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Remco Moolenaar
K.U. Leuven, Celestijnenlaan 200A, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium
E-mail: remco@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
From: chaim@linc.cis.upenn.edu (Chaim R. Dworkin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
Subject: Re: Pro/Venix Installation
Date: 12 Aug 92 15:40:59 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <1992Aug11.233044.1369@menudo.uh.edu> cosc16to@menudo.uh.edu (Andy Hakim) writes:
>
>After getting an authorization number from Vcom, I have venix 1.1 installed
>on my system, but I do not know the default passwords for the system accounts
>root, sysadm, setup, etc.   The only account I've been able to use is
>demo (neat)  Help!  (Barry, Chaim)  I would also like to be able to
>login via null modem from my PC, what is required on the venix side?
>


The password for root is gnomes.





Chaim R. Dworkin
chaim@linc.cis.upenn.edu
From: dwatts@ki.com (Dan Watts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
Subject: Re: Pathworks/LAST/LAD
Date: 19 Aug 92 16:45:42 GMT
Organization: ki Research, Inc

In article <l8fhdkINN6j9@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> jfn@titleist.Eng.Sun.COM writes:
|
|Can anyone tell me if LAST and LAD are Digital proprietary protocols
|or are they open ?
|
|thanks
|
|jamie

They're licensable and as open as AT&T Unix is.  Buy a license and you
get source and documentation.
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From: chaim@linc.cis.upenn.edu (Chaim R. Dworkin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
Subject: Re: Problems with Teledisk
Date: 12 Aug 92 15:28:36 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania


If there is a problem with Teledisk's compression not being stable,
perhaps someone should just contact Sidex and ask them about it.  As 
a programmer, if anyone told me my software was unstable I'd be sure
to check if it was a real bug and if so fix it in a hurry.

I am hesitant to recommend use of LHA (lharc) as an archiving tool.
There are no utilities to fix damaged LHA archives.  I had a valuable
program archived with LHA and lost it because the archive got damaged
somehow and the few programs available to fix damaged Lharcives are 
simply not as robust as the programs which are available to fix
zips and arcs.

Chaim R. Dworkin
chaim@linc.cis.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
From: keithr@garfield.cs.mun.ca (Keith Russell)
Subject: RX50 on PC's
Summary: How can one read RMS RX50's (PRO) on a PC?
Keywords: RX50 PC
Organization: CS Dept., Memorial University of Newfoundland
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 22:58:51 GMT

I managed to get teledisk. It works rather well so far. Now for the tough
question: Is there a way to read/write Professional 350 (i.e. RMS) RX50's on
a PC/AT/386? You can do it with CP/M for the Rainbow with 22DISK, but is there a
similar package for the Pro?

This question will probably be answered in the RX50 FAQ, but I've some 
software for my Pro on my 386 which I'd like to get soon. Connecting them 
won't work, so this is the only way.

Thank you in advance.

keithr

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= Keith Russell                 "Well, we were going to do nothing at all     =
= keithr@garfield.cs.mun.ca      for a while, but it can wait."               =
= #include <disclaim.h>                                 - Arthur Dent         =
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
From: KNIRSCH@linac.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de (MARTIN KNIRSCH)
Subject: RE: Mouse Interface
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 14:08:56 GMT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.21
Organization: Technical University Darmstadt, FRG (Nuclear Physics Institute)

Mouse Interface
-1- A adapter from eight pin mouse connector to RS232 should be
    avaiable in any electronic store.
-2- My mouse (Z-NIX Microsoft compatrible) uses the following
    RS232 pins : TXD(2), RXD(3), DTR(20), SGND(7) and RTS(4)
-3- Programming (on a Rainbow) is as follows :
    Set up Communication Control Block
    (Microsoft standard is 7 Bit, no Parity, 1200 Boud)
    
    MOV AH,44H
    MOV	AL,FUNCTION CODE
    MOV	BX,HANDLE		; USE HANDLE 3 FOR COMM1
    MOV	DX,OFFSET CCB		; ADDRESS OF COMMUNICATION CONTROL BLOCK
    INT	21H
   
    Lot's of function codes for programming the RS232 are avaiable 
    (Consult a DOD manual). 
    First disable receiver interrupts, then clear DTR and RTS.
    Program CCB to Microsoft Mouse Protocol as listyed above.
    Enable receiver interrupts and set DTR and RTS.
    The Mouse sends back three data bytes :
  
                   Bit #  7  6  5  4  3  2  1  0
    Byte0 :               X  1  L  R  Y7 Y6 X7 X6
    Byte1 :               X  0  X5 X4 X3 X2 X1 X0
    Byte2 :               X  0  Y5 Y4 Y3 Y2 Y1 Y0

    Data ranges are -128 to + 127  (Don't forget the 2'nds Complement
                                    for negative values)

    Mouse Data is written into a circular buffer. When DTR and RTS
    are set for the first time, the mouse sends a "M" identifying
    itself. If you receive the "M" most work is done. Reading 
    mouse data then is don by first testing Bit 6 of Byte 0, the sync Bit.
    (Bit 5 and 4 indicate pressed mouse buttons.) When Byte 0 is identified
    generate the X and Y databytes. They are representing the distance the
    mouse was moved since the last movement measured in mickeys (1/200 inch
    or 1/400 inch). 
    Hope that helps a little.               Martin
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Professional Computer FAQ
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 02:21:35 GMT

In article <1992Aug11.230506.29470@menudo.uh.edu> cosc16to@menudo.uh.edu (Andy Hakim) writes:
>
>Yes to both questions.  I called Sydex on Friday, and their numbers are
>disconnected (voice and bbs).  Information of that area code shows no listing.

Did you try Oregon or California?  I think Sydex moved!

cjl
From: barry@chezmoto.ai.mit.edu (Barry Kort)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
Subject: Kermit on PRO 350 under P/OS and Venix 1.0
Date: 14 Aug 92 12:07:06 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: MicroMuse

For those who are interested, we have located versions of Kermit
that work on the PRO 350 under P/OS and Venix.

K11POS.TSK is runnable from DCL on P/OS.  You can find copies on
ftp.utoledo.edu or watsun.cc.columbia.edu.  The problem is bootstrapping
it into the machine over the network.  If you already have an older
version of K11POS.TSK, then bootstrapping is no problem, but if you
have no existing way to transfer binary files over the COM1 Port,
then you either need an RX50 diskette, or you have to load it in
with ASCII transfer of K11POS.HEX, a 'Hexified' encoding of K11POS.TSK
similar in spirit to uuencode on Unix and BinHex on Macintosh.  There
is a small Basic program, K11HEX.BAS to convert a .HEX file into a .TSK
binary, but it only runs under RSX/Reese Basic, not under the P/OS
Basic 1.2 or 1.4.

The only version of Kermit that I was able to compile successfully
on PRO Venix 1.0 is an old, primitive version called uxkermit.c,
found on watsun.cc.columbia.edu in the kermit/extra directory.  You
need all uxk*.c files except uxkervms.c (which is for C on VMS).
There is no Makefile.  You have to hand-build it with 

	cc -c uxk*.c and cc -o kermit *.o

I had no luck compiling either Kermit 4E or 5A on PRO Venix 1.0.
4E exceeds the limits on the size of the Data Space.  It compiles
but doesn't load.  5A doesn't compile at all, due to various
compiler complaints too numerous to list.

If anyone knows of a superior version of Kermit for either P/OS or
Venix, please let us know.

Barry
From: chaim@linc.cis.upenn.edu (Chaim R. Dworkin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
Subject: Re: Professional Computer FAQ
Date: 12 Aug 92 15:12:15 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <BARRY.92Aug8111328@chezmoto.ai.mit.edu> barry@chezmoto.ai.mit.edu (Barry Kort) writes:
>In reading Chaim's FAQ, I was surprised to see a paragraph toward the
>beginning that said that the PRO could handle the RD53 71MB hard disk.
>
>I also found that Venix 1.0 wouldn't recognize the RD52 38MB HD (it
>formatted it as if it were an RD50 5MB HD).
>

Venix 1.0 has an extremely low limit of hard disk size that it will 
recognize.  I don't know what that limit is but it is somewhere in the 
range of 10-20 Mb.  Venix 2.0 will recognize a maximum of 32 Mb.  In 
order to get more hd space you have to add another drive.  I tried 
partitioning a drive on a Rainbow to two logical drives and venix 
overwrote the partitioning.  I don't know how to partition a large 
drive so venix will see it as multiple drives.  Someone mentioned once
that he  modified the venix kernal  but 2 years later when I obtained
a copy of venix and sent him a message, he had forgotten what he did.

Chaim R. Dworkin
chaim@linc.cis.upenn.edu
From: chaim@linc.cis.upenn.edu (Chaim R. Dworkin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
Subject: Re: Pro350 Configuration, Where To Find Stuff...
Date: 12 Aug 92 15:34:55 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

In article <1992Aug10.100735.58007@cc.usu.edu> ivie@cc.usu.edu (CP/M lives!) writes:
>
>I wonder how DEC would respond to someone scanning manuals and making them
>available somewhere? I'd like to have copies of manuals that I don't have,
>and would certainly love to be able to print fresh copies of (for example)
>the 1972 Small Computer Handbook at will.
>

Since I have a high quality scanner and set of some of the documentation
I considered doing this.  However, the documentation is in volumes of 
hundreds of pages each.  It would take weeks of scanning, maybe even 
months and would generate megabytes of material.  I couldn't possibly 
do it.  




Chaim R. Dworkin
chaim@linc.cis.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
From: cosc16to@menudo.uh.edu (Andy Hakim)
Subject: Re: Pro/Venix Installation
Organization: University of Houston
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 14:53:32 GMT

barry@chezmoto.ai.mit.edu (Barry Kort) writes:
: 
: Venix does an fsck upon boot.  This may be why your HD head is seeking?

This 2 minute head banging bit is prior to any venix msgs (right
after digital logo).  I have had a chance to try another st-225 and 
the st-4038 and they also exhibit the same problem... so it is probably
the software.  The 30mg drive did not work btw (disk read msgs during install)
maybe the heads/cylinders of the st-4038 are not the same as the RD-52.

Everything is setup correctly for remote logins.  In fact, remote 9600 
baud logins are so convenient, I even put away the monitor and keyboard 
in my closet.  Venix is nice.  P/OS is junk.  Sure, it doesnt  quite 
compare to SVR4 or BSD4, but its still totally cool.  I'm impressed.
Thanks!

I wrote several small test programs and utils to give the c compiler a spin.
Disk seeks really slow it down, but otherwise its acceptable.  I am 
planning on getting the following compiled: rz, sz, uue/uudecode,
compress/uncompress, unzip... + some other interesting tools.
If someone has already done any of the above, kindly let me know.

Also ran an old dhrystone benchmark program (avail from wuarchives.wustl.edu 
as /unix-c/benchmarks/dhrystone.c)

Results:

 * MACHINE          CPU        O/S           COMPILER          NO REGS  REGS
 * ----------- --------------------------------------------------------------
 * IBM PC/XT   8088-4.77Mhz    VENIX/86 2.0     cc               297     324
>> DEC PRO/350    F11          Venix/Pro 1.1    cc               308     322
 * IBM PC      8088-4.77Mhz    MSDOS 2.0     CI-C86 2.20M        390     390
 * PDP-11/34       -            UNIX V7M        cc               387     438
 * Macintosh   68000-7.7Mhz      -           MegaMax C 2.0       661     709
 * ATT 3B2/300 WE32000-?Mhz    UNIX 5.0.2       cc               735     806
 * IBM PC/AT     80286-6Mhz    PCDOS 3.0     MS 3.0(large)       833     847
 * VAX 11/750     -           Unix 4.2bsd      cc                862     877
>> Dell 333d    80386-33Mhz     DOS 5.0      BC++ 3.1(tiny)      ---   12500
>> VAX risc...                  ultrix4.3bsd    cc                     75000

 (>> indicate new tests) a more complete list is in the source code.
 
If someone has an ftp site we can use, I will teledisk some of the Pro stuff.

-andy
From: mwherry@amiganet.chi.il.us (Michael Wherry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
Subject: Of to the side a bit
Date: 16 Aug 92 07:26:04 GMT
Organization: Amiga Network Information Systems

I was using an RZ57  Drive a bit ago, and had the chance to take it home to
repair and keep it.  My Real question is, Can it be used on a home P.c. or is
it more just a large paper wait for my ever growing suppy of paper wait.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
From: mattox@kbesrl.me.uiuc.edu (David Mattox)
Subject: Dec Osf/Motif Widget header files (bug?)
Keywords: motif bug
Reply-To: mattox@kbesrl.me.uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept of Computer Science
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 14:28:41 GMT

Hi,  

I am taking my first stab at motif windows programming (i.e. "Hello World") and I am having a problem with the Dec supplied motif header files. When I try to #include Xm/Xm.h I get reports of syntax errors in that file. Has any one else had this problem? If so, is there a patch or workaround that I can use to fix it? I'm running Ultrix 4.2a on a DecStation 5000/200. The header files came from Dec on their OSF/Motif for RISC Ultrix tape and the files in question are dated Nov 13, 1990. Thanks in advance for


 any help, 

dave mattox
mattox@kbesrl.me.uiuc.edu
From: wipke@moleng.ucsc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Xmenus on emacs on decstation 5000/240 ?
Date: 22 Aug 92 22:10:21 GMT
Organization: UCSC Molecular Engineering Laboratory
NNTP-Posting-Host: moleng.ucsc.edu

I have installed gnuemacs.18.51 from the unsupported cd-rom that came
with our decstation 5000/240 along with the Ultrix cd.  I noted that
HAVE_X_MENU is commented out, and liking pop ups, tried to uncomment it
and do a make again.  Unfortunately Xmenu.c is requesting Xmenu.h from
X11 directory which is not a part of X distribution, nor is it part of
emacs distribution.  My question is does the pop up menu aspect work in
emacs, is anybody using it under Ultrix + Motif, and how did you get it
put together.  Appreciate your help, thanks.

Todd Wipke
wipke@secs.ucsc.edu
Molecular Engineering Laboratory
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
From: lgzpmm@vax.nott.ac.uk (Paul Mather)
Subject: Dat tape under Ultrix
Reply-To: lgzpmm@vax.nott.ac.uk (Paul Mather)
Organization: University of Nottingham, UK
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 14:53:41 BST

I have a DECstation 5000 running under Ultrix 4.2A. The supplier of a HP
DAT drive is unable to help with the installation (don't tell me; you get
what you pay for). I have used MAKEDEV to generate a tz-type driver called
rmt1h. I can copy files to and from the Dat using cp. However, when I use
dump I don't seem to get anything like the data capacity I expected (maybe
100Mb rather than 1.2Gb) irrespective of tape density/length settings on
the command line.
Does anyone out there have a HP dat drive that works? If so, please mail
me & tell me what parameters you use on the dump command line.

Maybe the supplier didn't set the switches correctly ......


Prof. Paul M. Mather
Dept of Geography
The University
Nottingham  NG7 2RD
UK

JANET: mather@uk.ac.nott.vax
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
From: bhandarkar@wrksys.enet.dec.com (Dileep Bhandarkar)
Subject: Re: Need TurboChannel card to talk token-ring.
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: 20 AUG 92 16:45:43    


In article <BtAEGC.6rs@world.std.com>, jlw@world.std.com (James L Walker) writes...
>The subject line says it all.  I can't justify making my customer buy an
>$8,000 bridge to make his network talk to one DECStation 5000/125.  Is
>there a third party TurboChannel card that will save me the expense?
> 
>-- Les Walker

ACC Systems in Columbia, MD has one. Their tel number is 800-242-0739.
From: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Booting a VAX 11/730
Date: 20 Aug 92 04:12:30 GMT
Reply-To: alan@nabeth.enet.dec.com (Alan Rollow - Alan's Home for Wayward Tumbleweeds.)
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation


In article <1992Aug18.154708.21277@ncsu.edu>, ms@ncsu.edu (Mark Stubbs) writes:
>
>Hello,
>
>We have recently acquired a VAX 11/730 with RL02 and RA80 disk drives,
>and a TU58 tape drive.  What we need to know is this:  
>
>    - How can you install ULTRIX on this beast,  given the only
>      seemingly usefull installation media is the ethernet.

The supported kit media for the 11/730 (as of ULTRIX V2.3) were RA60
and 9 track tape.  If you really have an RA80, as opposed to R80,
then the RA60 may be a possibility.  Otherwise you'll need a UNIBUS
tape drive.

I'm pretty sure that ULTRIX V2.3 was the last version to support the
11/730.  There's a chance the machine specific code for the 11/730
is still lurking around V3.0 and maybe even V4, but the further you
get away from a supported the more likely it is that something has
been broken.

>
>    - Are there any bootstraps on TU58 tape for doing a kind of network
>      boot? (IE Attempt to configure it as a diskless machine at first?)

I doubt it.  I'm not sure you can use the DEUNA for downline loading.
Even if you get it send out the right MOP message, you'll need to verify
that the generic kernel that gets loaded over the net has support for
the 11/730 in it.  A quick check of the V4.2 GENERIC configuration shows
no mention of the 11/730 nor the IDC.
>
>Any help or experience with these machine will be greatly appreciated.

Find someone with a V2.3 kit with TU58s for boot media.  Good luck.
If you can get a tape drive or RA60 (and it really does have a UDA50)
you should be able to do the installation directly.  If not, find
another VAX on which to do the installation and keep the generic
kernel around.

Supported tape drives (load) for the 11/730 running V2.3 were:

TS11, TU80, TU81, TU81E.

The tape drives supported as data devices only were:

TS05 and TUK50.

Make sure you have at least 4 MB of memory. 
>
>
>Mark Stubbs
>ms@unity.ncsu.edu
>
--
Alan Rollow				alan@nabeth.cxo.dec.com
From: young@eg.ecn.purdue.edu (Mike Young)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: ACP stuff now available via FTP
Keywords: FTP ACP RSX anonymous
Date: 18 Aug 92 14:22:33 GMT
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network


	I have received requests for the ACP documentation and examples that
I posted about earlier, so I have arranged to make Ralph Stamerjohn's DECUS
contribution available via anonymous FTP at site en.ecn.purdue.edu,
128.46.149.59 *or* 128.46.128.59.  It's just a bit over a megabyte, but you
don't need it all; both the .RNO files and the formatted .DOC are there, along
with .MAC sources and .CMD build files. Later on, I may be able to add another
contribution to this collection, once I receive permission from the author.
It is a user-written ACP and driver designed for a communications application.
Enjoy...



--
    |  Mike Young KA9HZE                |       young@ecn.purdue.edu    |
    |  Purdue University EE Dept.       |       ...!pur-ee!young        |
    |  W. Lafayette, IN  47907          |                               |
    _____________________________________________________________________
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
From: aj681@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Carlin Wiegner)
Subject: VAX QUESTIONS FROM BEGINNER!
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 03:15:19 GMT


I'm thinking of buying a used VAX -11/780 but I have a couple of
questions....

Can it run UNIX and a reasonable new version of UNIX?
How much physical memory can it have and how much do upgrades cost?
CAn you buy serial port boards and how much do they cost?
Can you buy a tape backup and how much does it cost?

Please email replies I really appreciate any help!
CW
-- 
Carlin Wiegner a.k.a. C-Man based here in Cleveland, Ohio, USA!
aj681@cleveland.freenet.edu or rhino@r2d2.eeap.cwru.edu
"Anything less [than a NeXT] would be uncivilized..."
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