[Info-vax] Powerterm emulator

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <3584808c-1247-4cd2-b23d-a2b81dd9a7eao at googlegroups.com>,
David Goodwin <dgsoftnz at gmail.com> writes: 

> > Will all VAXes hang without a console terminal switched on?
> 
> I wouldn't think so. I fairly routinely ran my MicroVAX 3500s without a 
> console terminal and they were fine. My VAXstation 4000s seemed fine 
> without a serial terminal too - not sure if I ever tried running them 
> completely headless though but I expect they'd work fine too.

OK, either a console terminal or console set to a graphics monitor; 
maybe the latter would be sufficient.  I always had to have a console on 
the VAXes; Alphas boot without (with neither console terminal nor 
graphics monitor which could also be used as a console).