Subject: Re: DS 5000/200: should I get one cheap?
To: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
List: port-pmax
Date: 09/12/1996 11:01:33
hi,

The 5000/200 is the first-generation Turbochannel machine. The CPU is
on the basboard (unlike other TC DECstations where the CPU is a
daughterboard, upgradable to an r4000 or r4400 daughterboard which is
not yet supported.)

There is no  motherboard video.  The video signal depends on which
TC  framebuffer card you get.  The  PMAG-BA (cfb) is 1024x876
sync-on-green fixed 60Hz.  The PMAGB-BA is 1280x1024, I'm not sure
of the video rate.

It looks like there's a bug in the serial-console code for 5000/200s
in the 1.2 release. (Either that or I have a 200 with a a dead port.)
More on that later.

--Jonathan