From: SMTP%"RELAY-INFO-VAX@CRVAX.SRI.COM" 25-AUG-1993 09:30:16.82 To: EVERHART CC: Subj: Re: VS2000 alternate console From: davidc@alpha.montagar.com (David L. Cathey) X-Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: VS2000 alternate console Message-Id: <1993Aug18.125124.18128@alpha.montagar.com> Date: 18 Aug 93 12:51:24 CDT Organization: Montagar Software Concepts, Plano TX Lines: 18 To: Info-VAX@kl.sri.com X-Gateway-Source-Info: USENET In article , jburns@agora.rain.com (Jamie Burns) writes: > I have a VAXstation 2000 and the monitor is dead, does any > one have experience in getting a VT320 for example to run > as the console terminal. I don't want to use a monitor in > the first place. > > Someone suggested connecting the terminal to the printer port > on the back of the VAXstation, but it doesn't work. Build 9-pin connector which has pins 8-9 tied together. Plug it into the printer port, power-cycle, and presto, the printer port is now the console. DEC sells a console cable built this way, too. > Jamie Burns - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - David L. Cathey |INET: davidc@montagar.com Montagar Software Concepts |UUCP: ...!montagar!davidc P. O. Box 260772, Plano TX 75026-0772 |Fone: (214)-618-2117