At 6:37 PM -0500 8/11/2000, Joe Flood wrote:
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>Now for some questions:
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>Is the pinout for the console the same as VS3100s?


     I don't know, but I connect my MMJ cable via a H8575-A adapter to 
an ordinary modem cable. It works fine at 9600 bps.


>I seem to remember hearing that the internal disks are DSSI.  Are those
>things usable in any way shape or form with NetBSD?


     NetBSD will not see them. Of course, that CAN be an asset: you 
could put VMS on the DSSI disk, NetBSD on an external SCSI disk and 
they would coexist (remember to turn off the SCSI disk when running 
VMS).


>About how much heat do these things throw out?

     A maximum of 2903 BTU per hour (per the 1996 Systems and Options 
catalog listing for the VAX 4000-505 and -705).