Nicholas,

Not sure about your hardware questions, never had a uVAX II, don't have the
room or the need for extra heating. As for a UK source for DEC bits and
pieces you could try Prodec, http://www.prodec.co.uk , they are pretty
reasonable and can get most VAX/Alpha stuff. A company called Greenweld,
http://www.greenweld.co.uk have some uVAX II's for 50quid a time too, I
believe these have memory, HD etc. You might also want to try a company
called Swan Computer Brokers, don't have the details but they usually
advertise in DEC Computing (published by VNU?). Swan would probably be a
good source for ye olde uVAX II bits.

Hope this helps.

Andrew

-----Original Message-----
From: Nicholas Humfrey <njh1@st-andrews.ac.uk>
To: port-vax@netbsd.org <port-vax@netbsd.org>
Date: 30 September 1998 17:52
Subject: MicroVax II - The Basics


>
>I have just bought a MicroVax II. It is my first Vax and I do not know very
>much about it's basic hardware operation. I think the memory board may not
>work due to a couple of smahed chips during transit.
>
>1) What to the five leds on the mother board represent ? (The first three
>from the left stay turned on)
>
>2) What does the LED display on the back mean ? (It counts down as far as
'C')
>
>3) What does the switch and the knob above the baud rate knob control ?
>
>4) At what stage should it start using the serial port on the back ? (And
>let me know something works :-)
>
>The machine was once in a BT telephone exchange and still has it's DIGITAL
>service card stuck to it. It does not have a plastic case - only a front
>panel which doesn't seem to stick on the front. Is this because it was rack
>mounted ? Are there any company's which sell VAX hardware in the UK
>(mailorder) ? It does not have a hard disk - just a 5.25 floppy, so I could
>either do a network boot off my 486 or buy it a hard disk.
>
>Thanks
>
>Nicholas
>
>