[Info-vax] MicrovaxStation 3100 CDROM

[Simon Clubley]

On 2022-06-01, Dave Barter <dave at nautoguide.com> wrote:
> I have a 3100 unit that I need to load software onto. At the moment it only has VMS 7.1 and a TK50 tape drive. I don't have access to another drive. Maybe a dumb question, but can I purchase a cheap external SCSI CDROM drive and use this to move files across? The 3100 has a SCSI connector at the back, it's probably DEC proprietary but I'm hoping there is a connector out there that might work.
>

Didn't the SCSI CD-ROMs on that generation hardware require a certain
block size that wasn't the standard block size on normal PC hardware ?

> Other option is to file transfer via the serial console but I'm not sure if VMS comes with anything like Kermit out of the box.
>

You could always hexify the file to be transferred, use C-Kermit's
TRANSMIT command (with appropriate inter-line delays) to transfer
the file to a waiting "$ copy/log tt: filename.dat", and then write
a little dehexify program in Macro-32 or whatever other language you
might have installed.

I assume TCP/IP is not installed on the server in question.

If it is installed, but the real problem is you don't have a working
ethernet connection, you could always try bringing up SLIP or PPP on
one of the serial ports.

Simon.

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