Subject: Re: Looking for DECstation 2100/3100 info/faqs online
To: None <port-pmax@netbsd.org>
From: Robert D. Keys <bsdbob@seedlab1.cropsci.ncsu.edu>
List: port-pmax
Date: 10/06/1998 14:08:39
I have an old DECstation 2100 and 3100 running NetBSD.  Alas, I don't
have any documentation for it.  Are there any FAQ's or other info
on-line for these machines.  I do have DEC's 3100 postscript guide
from their archives, but was wondering if anything else was about.
No manuals came with either machine, but one has a PC like keyboard
while the other has the traditional DEC keyboard, and both have mono
19'' monitors.  One has 24M ram and the other is missing a pair of
simms (16M?).

Any pointers to something like hardware faq's and the like, particularly
as relates to installing drives and tapes, would be of use.

My goal is to try to fit a couple of RZ-26 drives in the thing, and
an Archive Viper scsi tape (150mb), if it will work, so I can try
to do some serious playing on the beasts.  Unfortunately, I don't know
that much about DEC hardware, yet.

The cases on the machines are both apparently 2100 cases, but one
supposedly has a motherboard that is a 3100.  The 3100 has a 3 connector
scsi cable internally, and that got me to thinking of trying to maximize
the interal drives by dropping in a pair of RZ-26 that I have on a
PS/2 machine, and, if possible putting a standard 1/2 height scsi tape
in the same box.  The 2100 I plan to use as a box from which to dump
scsi images onto things like my Sun 3 or possibly a PS/2 port, by
running an outboard scsi box for drives.

Would something like that be reasonable?

Does such info exist on-line?

Thanks

Bob Keys