Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> writes: On 10/05/2013 11:45 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote: I have two VaxStation 3100's that I bought some time back but didn't have time to mess with until now. Unlike my DEC 3000, the serial console is an MMJ port and not a DB9 serial port. Does anyone have an excess or spare MMJ to DB9 adaptor, or know where I can purchase an inexpensive one? First of all, you are talking about a DE9, not a DB9 (surprising how many don't know the correct name of that connector). Fallout from DB-25 is likely to blame. I educate whomever I can, but I have all but given up on the general technical public understanding this. Second, DEC often used a different pinout for a DE9 than IBM did, so you might not be too happy with the adapter, depending on what you want in the end. THe early DEC 9-pin connectors were basically DB-25(pins 1 through 8) mapped to DE-9(pins 1 through 8) and DB-25(pin 20) to DE-9(pin 9). Due to the more ubiquitous IBM PeeCee pin pin configuration, DEC bagan producings DE-9s with that pin configuration. The 9-pin console connection on the back of a MicroVAX-II, for example, hused the earlier configuration. The 9-pin console connection on the PCI bus Alpha workstations, a later DEC product example, used the latter pin configuraiton. In this case, the DEC-machine-facing side is the MMJ. (at least that is my understanding) I tired hooking up my multisync monitor I have hooked up to my DEC 3000, but I don't think the graphic card is set to a setting within the monitor's range, as nothing shows up. Do the DEC 3000 have a VGA port? It does not. And there were different graphics options too for the 3000s depending upon the model. None, that I recall, were VGA. -- VAXman- A Bored Certified VMS Kernel Mode Hacker VAXman(at)TMESIS(dot)ORG Well I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.