[Info-vax] Monitor for Alphastation 500

[Steven Schweda]

> [...] two VGA style plugs but these are serial ports, [...]

   9-pin serial ports have nine pins (in two rows).  VGA has
fifteen pins (in three rows).

> There are three free PCI ports which it says I can use for
> video/graphics expansion module and a monitor.

   A typical assortment might include a graphics card, a SCSI
card (for external devices), and a faster Ethernet card.

> The box must be loaded up with OpenVMS [...]

   Or could be.  There could be pre-installed software.  The
Hobbyist program would give you more modern software.

> It was supplied with a three button ball mouse [...]

   A keyboard might be helpful, too.

> There's some OneDrive pictures of the box, [...]

   No obvious graphics card there.