Need VT320 Terminal settings to hook up a MicroVax 3100-40

[stewart allen]

Hi All,
I received a MicroVAX 3100-40 (BA42B), a VT320 terminal, lk201 keyboard and
a MMJ cable. (I am relatively new to this but asked some preliminary
questions). Now I need to know what should the settings be on the terminal.
Also some common commands (assuming the thing starts up) since I will be
trying to find out: installed OS, hard drive size, Memory, etc.

Thanks in advance
Stewart Allen

[James T. Sprinkle]

Repost to either comp.os.vms or comp.sys.dec. You will have better luck
there...

JaYmZ

Post by stewart allen
Hi All,
I received a MicroVAX 3100-40 (BA42B), a VT320 terminal, lk201 keyboard and
a MMJ cable. (I am relatively new to this but asked some preliminary
questions). Now I need to know what should the settings be on the terminal.
Also some common commands (assuming the thing starts up) since I will be
trying to find out: installed OS, hard drive size, Memory, etc.
Thanks in advance
Stewart Allen
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The goal of the works of a genius' existance lies only in itself.

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Post by James T. Sprinkle
Repost to either comp.os.vms or comp.sys.dec. You will have better luck
there...

Probably, but anyway...

Post by James T. Sprinkle

Post by stewart allen
I received a MicroVAX 3100-40 (BA42B), a VT320 terminal, lk201
keyboar and a MMJ cable. (I am relatively new to this but
asked some preliminary questions). Now I need to know
what should the settings be on the terminal.

For a console terminal I believe it is 9600 baud. If it is
like the 3100-30 that I have, it is the connector on the left,
as viewed from the back, not the one next to the switch as you
would expect.

I presume you are using this for hobbyist purposes.

You can easily run NetBSD on it. If you want VMS then
join the hobbyist program, the CD costs, I believe, $30 and
it reasonably easy to install. MicroVAX require a 512 byte
block CDROM drive. Another possibility is to copy the whole
CD over to a SCSI hard drive block by block, and boot that.
It might be faster, too.

-- glen