Re: DECstation 2100: power trouble?

[Dave McGuire <mcguire%neurotica.com@localhost>]

On 4/16/26 22:45, Mouse wrote:
> > > Is it known what it takes to fake keyboard and/or mouse presence?
> >  From 30-year-old notes:
>
> For a 30-plus-year-old machine, that's fair :-)

  ;)

> I installed such a jumper.  I had to reset the machine a few times
> (and/or let it sit powered on; I did both, but don't know what is
> responsible for it working), but eventually the LEDs went to 7f instead
> of ef; it then POSTed successfully:

  Excellent.

> It now netboots into some NetBSD/pmax, whatever I had in my leftover
> netboot setup.
>
> I don't know why I didn't succeed before.  I must have not done
> whatever magic sequence got it past getting stuck at ef before.

  It might have just needed a little time to "wake up". :-)

> This is very encouraging!  It's a bit finicky to get started, but once
> it works it seems to actually work.
>
> Thank you very much, both of you!

  My contribution was minimal, but I'm happy to assist.  It's always 
nice to hear about one of these machines coming back to life.  The 
DECstation line are great little machines.

          -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA