As Greg A. Woods wrote ...
> [ On , June 6, 1999 at 03:12:04 (-0400), Nathan J. Williams wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: Old DEC software
> >
> > Allen Briggs <briggs@ninthwonder.com> writes:
> > 
> > > Sorry for the mostly off-topic question...  I'm hoping there are
> > > some DEC-heads who might be able to help me.  I have a DECServer 300
> > > terminal server that I want to use as a console server for my NetBSD
> > > machines (m68k, pmax, alpha, arm32, etc.), but I don't have any boot
> > > software for it.  Does anyone know where I can find it?  Is it still
> > > possible to buy it from DEC/Compaq?
> > > If not, does anyone have a copy floating around some almost forgotten
> > > corner of a network?
> > 
> > 	I have one of these boxes too, and I started a search similar
> > to yours, until someone pointed out the fact that the boxes speak DEC
> > LAT on the ethernet port, so unless you have client or translator box
> > that also speaks LAT, even getting it running isn't actually very
> > productive. I've also heard it said that some Cisco boxes can do
> > conversion of LAT or whatever the relevant protocol on top of LAT is
> > to TCP, so if you have a handy Cisco, the DECserver might be worth
> > more than a doorstop.
> 
> I have some DECserver 90TLs and a 900TM (hooked to a big DEChub900
> multiswitch backplane, along with associated ethernet switches, hubs,
> concentrators, etc.), which do speak TCP/IP, and I do have DECserver
> NAS-v2.2 that does run on them, but do not have FLASH ROMs (though the
> 900TM has a PCMCIA slot for one) and as a result they make very poor
> (almost useless) terminal servers because they need a running host to
> boot from.  I'd been hoping to get rid of all of the screens on *all* of
> my servers, but unless I can find a compatible FLASH card for the 900TM

We used Mitsubishi cards for the DECserver 900TM. I'll try to look up
which Mitsubishi part# the blank has.

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