In article by Mike W.: Yes, it will run UNIX, the timesharing system by Ritchie and Thompson, Berkeley VAX version thereof, the current version of which is 4.3BSD-Quasijarus maintained by me, the WWW page for which is: http://minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au/ Running UNIX requires a UNIX source license (True UNIX never had, doesn't have, and never will have a concept of "binary only"), but these days SCO gives them out for FREE! You have a tape drive, so you will have no problem with installation. I have supply you with the boot tape, but you'll have to reimburse me for the tape and shipping. You need a standard RS-232 terminal. The console port connector on the MicroVAX is of a rather odd standard, though. A DEC BCC05 or BCC08 cable will connect it to a standard RS-232 DB25M terminal. If you want or have to make your own cable, I've got the pinout for the MicroVAX console port connector somewhere. The I/O distribution panel on the back provides external connections for all Q-bus modules you have. You'll have to tell us what Q-bus modules you have so that we can tell you what external connections they need. You obviously have the CPU, which has one external connection: the console port which I just told you about. On the CPU module bulkhead there are two knobs and one switch. One knob selects the console port baud rate. I think this one is obvious. You can use any of the baud rates printed around the knob, but 9600 baud is standard. The other knob selects between normal operation (the arrow icon), console language selection (the talking face icon), and console port loopback test (the T in the circle icon). I always leave it on the arrow icon. Finally, the switch selects between maintenance mode (halt enabled, stay in the console on power-up) and production mode (halt disabled, boot the OS on power-up). These correspond to the dot- inside-the-circle and dot-outside-the-circle icons, respectively. For now leave the dot inside the circle. For more info subscribe to the Quasijarus mailing list and ask there. Send subscription requests to: quasijarus-request(a)ivan.Harhan.ORG -- Michael Sokolov Harhan Engineering Laboratory Public Service Agent International Free Computing Task Force International Engineering and Science Task Force 615 N GOOD LATIMER EXPY STE #4 DALLAS TX 75204-5852 USA Phone: +1-214-824-7693 (Harhan Eng Lab office) E-mail: msokolov(a)ivan.Harhan.ORG (ARPA TCP/SMTP) (UUCP coming soon) Received: (from major@localhost) by minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id GAA48495 for pups-liszt; Sat, 27 May 2000 06:46:12 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from owner-pups(a)minnie.cs.adfa.edu.au)