[rescue] What to do with an orphan DEC Professional 350?

BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak rescue at sunhelp.org
Mon Oct 8 11:29:18 CDT 2001


> You could run a serial termianl off the printer port, it was a bit of a
> hack, but it could be done... I think it was documented in the PRO/ToolKit
> (serial console for debugging your own code)...

Anyone have any leads on where I would find that info?  All I have are
the Venix images.

> I don't know if that secondary console/terminal could be your *only*
> console...

Well, I was just looking for something to get it up for testing.
I like serial consoles, so if it did work, that would be fine by me.

Alas, when I got the critter home, it did not have its 10mb hd.
What kinds of HD's will sub into the 350, and what sorts of DECism
particular formatting constraints are needed.  I have a couple of
120mb mfm drives I have been holding onto, for a RainyDay VAXentoy.
But if one would work in the 350, that might be a nice target for it.
What constraints are there on 350 HD's?

It appears to have a 250mb ram card in it.  I was thinking there were
supposed to be 250mb or somesuch on the mother board?  Is that correct?
If so, then I may have 512mb ram?

Are there any on-line manuals or pdfs for this thing.  I don't recall
running across any, yet.

Thanks

Bob




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