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VAX – MMJ DEC423 Pinout

Setting up serial connection to VAXstation 4000/60:

First made a serial cable, attention Vax use a DEC423 serial port designed for long distant terminal line:

--------------- 1 - DTR (Data terminal ready)
I             I 2 - TxD (Transmit data)
I 1 2 3 4 5 6 I 3 - GND (Signal ground)
I             I 4 - RxC (Receive common)
I             I 5 - RxD (Receive data)
---------I____I 6 - DSR (Data set ready)

Pin 2 of the phone connector goes to Rx pin of the serial (3 of DB25 or 2 of DB9), pins 3 & 4 go to ground (7 of DB25 or 5 of DB9), and pin 5 goes to Tx pin (2 of DB25 or 3 of DB9).

Then, make sure that the S3 switch (on the front of the 4000/60) is set to
the up position so that the VAX uses the serial console instead of the
graphics console.

Then, load up your favourite terminal application, set the speed to 9600
baud, make sure hardware handshaking is off, and see if you can talk to
the VAX.

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My first VAX and VMS system

3 days ago I find a nice VAX Station 4000/60 on ebay for only 41 Euro (about 60 Dollars), obviously I bought it, and today delivery boy knock my door!

I paste the command/console output of the recovery procedure:

KA46-A V1.4-38E-V4.2
08-00-2B-92-4E-C7
24MB

?? 001 9 NI 0172

>>> sh config

KA46-A V1.4-38E-V4.2
08-00-2B-92-4E-C7
24MB

DEVNBR DEVNAM INFO
------ -------- --------------------------
1 NVR OK
2 LCG OK
HR - 8 PLN FB - V1.2
3 DZ OK
4 CACHE OK
5 MEM OK
24MB = SY=8MB, S0/1=8MB, S2/3=8MB, S4/5=0MB
6 FPU OK
7 IT OK
8 SYS OK
9 NI ?? 001 0172
10 SCSI OK
3-L0-RZ26B 6-INITR
11 AUD OK

>>> ?

BOOT [/[R5:]<bflg>] [<ddau>[:]]
CONTINUE
DEPOSIT [{ /B | /W | /L | /Q | /A }] [{ /P | /V | /I }] [/G] [/U] [/N:<n>]
[{ <addr> | <sym> | + | - | * | @ } [<datum>]]
EXAMINE [{ /B | /W | /L | /Q | /A }] [{ /P | /V | /I }] [/G] [/U] [/N:<n>]
[{ <addr> | <sym> | + | - | * | @ }]
FIND [{ /MEMORY | /RPB }]
HALT
HELP
INITIALIZE
LOGIN
REPEAT <cmd>
SET BOOT <ddau>
SET BFLG <bflg>
SET DIAGENV <1-3>
SET FBOOT <0-1>
SET HALT <1-3>
SET KBD <0-15>
SET MOP <0-1>
SET PSE <0-1>
SET PSWD
SET SCSI <0-7>
SET TRIG <0-1>
SHOW { BOOT | BFLG | CONFIG | DEV | DIAGENV | FBOOT | ETHER | ERROR |
ESTAT | HALT | KBD | MEM | MOP | PSE | SCSI | TRIG }
START <addr>
TEST [/UTIL] <devnam | devnbr>
UNJAM
X <addr> <cnt> ...
?

>>> B/1

-DKA300
SYSBOOT> SET/STARTUP OPA0:

SYSBOOT> SET WINDOWS_SYSTEM 0

%SYSBOOT-E-NOPARAM, no such parameter WINDOWS_SYSTEM
SYSBOOT> SET WRITESYSPARAMS 0

SYSBOOT> CONTINUE

VAX/VMS Version V5.5-2H4 Major version id = 1 Minor version id = 0

PLEASE ENTER DATE AND TIME (DD-MMM-YYYY HH:MM) 27-NOV-2009 3:51
$

$ SPAWN
SPAWN
%DCL-S-SPAWNED, process SYSTEM_1 spawned
%DCL-S-ATTACHED, terminal now attached to process SYSTEM_1
$ @SYS$SYSTEM:STARTUP
$! Copyright (c) 1993 Digital Equipment Corporation. All rights reserved.

%STDRV-I-STARTUP, VMS startup begun at 27-NOV-2009 04:00:59.19

The VAX/VMS system is now executing the system startup procedure.

%SET-I-NEWAUDSRV, identification of new audit server process is 00000088

The VAX/VMS system is now executing the site-specific startup commands.

%RUN-S-PROC_ID, identification of created process is 0000008C
%NCP-W-FILOPE, File open error , Permanent database

%NML-E-OPENOUT, error opening SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSEXE]NETLOGING.DAT; as output
-RMS-F-PLV, unsupported prolog version
%NCP-W-OPEFAI, Operation failure

%SYSTEM-F-TIMEOUT, device timeout
, timeout
, unit is active
, fatal hardware error
%NCP-W-UNRCMP, Unrecognized component , Circuit
Circuit = SVA-0

%NCP-I-NOINFO, No information in database
%RUN-S-PROC_ID, identification of created process is 0000008D
Job NCPSTART (queue SYS$BATCH, entry 1) started on SYS$BATCH
%RUN-S-PROC_ID, identification of created process is 0000008F
%SET-I-INTSET, login interactive limit = 20, current interactive value = 1
27-NOV-2009 04:03:07
Process SYSTEM_1 logged out at 27-NOV-2009 04:03:08.62

Accounting information:
Buffered I/O count: 3431 Peak working set size: 888
Direct I/O count: 1440 Peak page file size: 3806
Page faults: 16606 Mounted volumes: 0
Charged CPU time: 0 00:00:22.71 Elapsed time: 0 00:02:18.06
%DCL-S-RETURNED, control returned to process STARTUP
$ SET DEFAULT SYS$SYSTEM
SET DEFAULT SYS$SYSTEM
$ RUN SYS$SYSTEM:AUTHORIZE
RUN SYS$SYSTEM:AUTHORIZE
UAF> MODIFY SYSTEM /PASSWORD=system
%UAF-I-MDFYMSG, user record(s) updated
UAF> EXIT
%UAF-I-DONEMSG, system authorization file modified
%UAF-I-RDBNOMODS, no modifications made to rights data base
$ LOGOUT
LOGOUT
SYSTEM job terminated at 27-NOV-2009 04:04:26.81

Accounting information:
Buffered I/O count: 99 Peak working set size: 1056
Direct I/O count: 46 Peak page file size: 3978
Page faults: 471 Mounted volumes: 0
Charged CPU time: 0 00:00:00.41 Elapsed time: 0 00:05:33.58

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