hello,

congrats on some nice VAXen! the VLC has the distinction of being the
smallest general production VAX made :-) 
you can indeed do a serial console. however, not on the DB25 port, but on 
the MMJ port. It looks like an RJ12 except that the locking tab is offset 
to one side instead of centered. It's a differential serial, but you can 
make an adaptor fairly easily, esp if you have a spare RJ12 cable or can 
crimp some rj12 connectors. The offset-tab mmj connectors are no longer 
made. once you have a cable (look in the archive of the list for the 
pinout, its been posted many times) it's 9600-8-n-1 and you're set. 

happy hacking,
isildur

On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Charlie Allom wrote:

> Hey,
> 
> 
> I'm from port-macppc land, and have just aquired a couple of DEC
> VAXSTATION 4000 VLC's. I am without a 3W3 monitor or a terminal. Can I
> boot these things with a serial connection on the RS-232 port and
> sysinst that way?
> 
> Regards,
>   C.
> -- 
>  charlie@rubberduck.com
>  http://rubberduck.com/yeled/pgp.txt
>