Setting up a VAXstation

[Liam Proven]

On 01/10/2007, Jochen Kunz <jkunz at unixag-kl.fh-kl.de> wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 18:34:17 +0100
> "Liam Proven" <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > > If you don't have a color frame buffer (GPX or SPX)
> > How would I tell?
> There may be some boot PROM commands to get that information, maybe
> "show conf".

Tricky, when I have no display yet... :¬)

> At least
> you can see it by physical inspection: The mono frame buffer is on the
> main PCB. GPX or SPX are mezzanine plug in cards sitting on top of the
> main PCB, maybe 20x25 cm^2 in size. Don't confuse it with RAM options.
> These are mezzanine plug in cards too, but they are only about 10x20
> cm^2 and they are aligned to the front of the machine. The framebuffer
> is aligned in the middle / a bit to the back.

Taking it apart, I can do, and indeed am rather looking forward to,
when I get it home! I don't know how much RAM it's got yet, either.

I have had the lid off. Poking up above the tray that the internal
disks sit on, there is what I think is a SCSI controller. That's all I
could see.

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