[HECnet] DECserver 200/MC - Worth a Punt?

[Gregg Levine]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:

  Are you in the US?   I have bunches of DECservers (mostly 100s and
200s); I was just recently given several more.   I love 'em and I intend
to run some here as I get things set up in my new building, but I have
far more than I will ever need.   I am happy to share the wealth if my
shipping costs are covered.

                          -Dave

On 09/18/2012 04:30 AM, Dan Williams wrote:
Hi,

I pretty much thought that. I have the owners manual now, thanks to
Richard who has reorganised Manx. This just says the same about the
LED's

But I would still like to get it going. Has anyone got a copy of the
Service manual or Technical manual for this ?


Dan

On 18 September 2012 08:50,   <hvlems at zonnet.nl> wrote:
In which case the DS200 is dead, unfortunately.
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Hi,

I have tried all baud rates on the 1st Port. There is nothing on power
on or if reset.   Holding down the reset button whilst powering on
doesn't change anything. I also tried shorting the pins in case the
switch was broken.

Although the network activity light flashes when I plug a network
adapter into it, it doesn't seem to try and load anything. I have 4
machines with the software on and also tried it from a Linux machine.

There is a short diagnostic manual online
http://deathrow.vistech.net/~cvisors/DEC94MDS/dsrvbf01.txt.   This says
that if LED 2 is not lit up then it has a serious error and has failed
self test. It says to refer to the technical manual if it doesn't
light up, which I cannot find online.


I used to have one of these before, which I gave away. This just
worked, one of my machines is still setup from these days to mop boot
it.

Dan


--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA

Hello!
What about the Model 90 family? (Don't forget that care package, the
yetis are waiting.)

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