[rescue] VAX terminal question

[Dave McGuire]

On July 10, Mike Katchabaw wrote:
> After a generous soul got me the appropriate power cord for my rescued
> VAX 4000/500, I powered the beast up today.  It was set to go into

  Excellent.  That's a fine machine, and even rather zippy.

> console mode at boot (with breaks enabled), and set to be in run mode.
> It booted fine and all indicator lights indicated that everything was
> fine.  Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get anything to appear on
> my terminal.
>
> As a terminal I was using an old laptop runing Telix.  (It has worked
> fine this way on my SGI and Sun boxes in the past.)  I connected it
> to the console port using an MMJ-DB25 cable, and then a DB25-DB9
> connector to go into the laptop.  Using a straight-through cable,
> Telix would report that it was online; using a cross-over, Telix would
> remain offline.  Even though "online" I wasreceiving nothing
> from the VAX, and I was getting no echos of what I typed with the
> terminal in full-duplex mode.

  9600 8N1 is fine...Try turning flow control off in Telix (I think
Telix lets you do that).

          -Dave

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