Subject: Re: console type...
To: None <mellon@ipd.wellsfargo.com>
From: Chris Phillips <chris@otter.cs.yorku.ca>
List: port-pmax
Date: 11/30/1994 15:28:34
 |On Wed, 30 Nov 1994 11:31:24 -0800 
 | Ted Lemon <mellon@ipd.wellsfargo.com> wrote:
 |
 | > Wait!   If you have a DECstation 3100, you need a special loopback
 | > connector in order to get it to operate headless, so your search for a
 | > terminal may be in vain.   You'd be better off just getting it up to
 | > the point where you can telnet in and then hacking on an XTerm on some
 | > other machine.   That's what I've been doing recently.

What does this loop-back connector look like ? I am trying to boot a DEC3100 
w/o console and having lots of trouble (hangs in boot sequence). 
Thanks for any assistance,

Chris Phillips (chris@cs.yorku.ca)