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

[Ken Hansen]

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)...

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

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave McGuire" <mcguire at neurotica.com>
To: "BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak"
<bobkeys at weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu>
Cc: <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 11:40 AM
Subject: Re: [rescue] What to do with an orphan DEC Professional 350?


> On October 5, BSD Bob the old greybeard BSD freak wrote:
> > On a lark.... I sometimes do a lot of things on a lark... I could not
resist
> > a dusty, musty, but not too rusty, DEC Professional 350 crate at todays
> > Friday Friendly Feeding Frenzy (FFFF).  I bought it mostly to pull the
> > dual floppy out of it as a VAX spare.  But, the thought occurred to me
> > that Venix(?) or something like that ran on it.  I did not get a
keyboard
> > or monitor for it (DEC VT220ish thing, maybe?), but was wondering if
there
> > was a way to run a serial console off the critter for some testing?
> >
> > Anyone ever do much or still run one of these DEC Professional 350
crates?
>
>   I've run a bunch of 'em.  They take LK201/LK401 keyboards and VR201
> or VR241 monitors.  They don't do serial consoles as far as I know.
> They can run Pro/Venix or DEC's P/OS (an RSX-11M/Plus derivative).
> The Pro-325 and -350 are based on the F11 chipset, and the Pro-380 is
> based on the J11.



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