Re: DECstation 2100: power trouble?

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>> Were [2100s] never intended to be used without mouse and keybaord
>> even if they have no VSIMM installed?  I can't think why selftest
>> would fail without mouse/keyboard if serial console is supported.
> I ran several DECstation-2100 and -3100 system as DNS and Kerberos
> servers on ISP networks in the 1990s.  They worked just fine as
> headless machines.  They came up just fine on their own after power
> failures.

Curious.  Do you happen to recall whether you had anything connected to
the keyboard and mouse connectors?

I've found a little more about my machine.  Not sure how much use it'll
be, but here it is.

>> printenv
baud2=1200
baud3=9600
bootpath=
bootmode=*
console=0
kbd=00
scsiid0=6
systype=0x82012001
bitmap=0xa000fcc0
bitmaplen=0xc0
inetaddr=0
osconsole=8
>> 

Nothing there surprises me, though I do wonder what the "bitmap" is.

>> test -c
MEM: 24Mbytes
VIDEO: NO
ETHERNET STA ADDR: 08-00-2b-14-8c-7e
SCSI DEVS:
U[7]
U[6]KN01--SII
U[5]
U[4]
U[3]
U[2]
U[1]
U[0]
>> 

So, despite the 0x00000000, it does at some level realize it's got 24M
of RAM.  I speculate that maybe this is related to my using ^C to abort
the selftest.

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