[Info-vax] [OT] "funny" thing on the usual auction site...

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Richard B. Gilbert wrote 2012-08-24 03:14:
> On 8/23/2012 11:31 AM, miganowicz at gmail.com wrote:
>
>   My biz partner is the one selling this box and right now it is sitting in
> my office.
> If anybody wants to give me some help on figuring out what exactly this was
> used for with Apple I
> can hook it up and give it a try. I do MS network administration so VMS is
> a bit foreign with me.
> The most I've done with VMS is a disk wipe/reinstall. I'm guessing that
> decdecision is what was
> used on this machine. Will it run from the command prompt or does it
> require a monitor hookup?
>>
>
> I'm somewhat puzzled by the above!  What "command prompt"??????  If you
> don't have a monitor how are you getting output?
>
> Are you using a teletype to communicate with the system?
>
>
>

I read "command prompt" = "serial line" (what it connects to is not
rellevant) and "monitor" = some graphic interface of some kind.

So yes, the "command prompt" will most probably be enough.