[HECnet] Bringing up a MicroVAX 3100-80

yes, zero is the console http://www.bitsavers.org/ find the manual, probably leds are on because you don't have a terminator plug on aui and bnc ... has been a while ... -- ?On the whole, professional pessimists prove right at the end if one does not hold them too tightly to a time scale.? (Erwin Chargaff, 1978, Heraclitean Fire) Notice for the terrestrials: This communication may be unlawfully collected and stored by the National Security Agency (NSA), its contractors, internet providers, subsidiaries, government agencies foreign or domestic, and agents, as well as by private parties, corporations and isp providers, in secret. The parties to this email do not consent to the retrieving or storing of this communication and any related metadata, as well as printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, or otherwise using it. If you believe you have received this communication in error, please delete it immediately. Notice for the aliens: based on theories presumably related to fantasy friends and/or hands, the majority of living organisms on the third planet from the central star in this solar system are being negatively impacted by the dominant species, who are choosing to replicate themselves against the better judgement of the minority, which will likely result in the elimination of all living organisms on said planet within the next few decades.