[Info-vax] VAX RDMs (Remote Diagnostic Modules)

[Bob Koehler]

In article <j9umr8$jfv$1 at usenet01.boi.hp.com>, brian <brian.corbin at hp.com> writes:
> 
> In Canada the VAX application was called VDIAL,( maybe short for virtual 
> dialer)  one of the first questions VDIAL asked was if we were dialing 
> to a RDM connected modem on a serial console port or to a modem 
> connected to a normal data port. By the time I transferred into the call 
> center in 1996 the use of the RDM in the field was in sharp decline. I 
> recall only a few cases where I connected to an RDM and those were cases 
> where the system was flat down and we needed to see the console messages.

   We put RDMs on our VAXen and PDP-10s in the '80s, because service
   cost less if we had one.  Don't recall ever giving the telephone
   number to anyone from DEC, and never had anyone actually dial in.