[Info-vax] VAXStation 3100

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 1/16/19 3:41 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> 
> OK, before I go screwing with it any more than I need too....
> 
> I fired  up the first 3100.  It has 7.1 (but I don't remember
> any of the passwords.  Not a problem, I know how to break into
> the box and reset the system password.) and 5.5 on it.  That
> must go back quite a ways.
> 
> But here's the new problem.  I plugged an Expansion box in
> the same outlet strip and connected them together. Kicks
> the GFCI breaker!!  Disconnect the SCSI between the two
> boxes.  As soon as I turn the second one on it kicks the
> GFCI.  Either one is OK by itself, but the two together
> kicks the GFCI.  Other than a wiring problem in the power
> supply (I assume it would take one of them having the white
> and black wires reversed in side the box) what else could
> cause them to kick a GFCI as opposed to a circuit breaker?
> 

Never mind.  Looks like a faulty GFCI outlet and not a
problem with any of the VAX stuff.  Another example of
what you get when you buy a house from an idiot.  Buys
cheap and thought he saved money.  Well, maybe he did.
He just stuck someone else with the expense and the
work.  :-)

bill