On Sat, May 4, 2019 at 9:42 AM Al Kossow via cctalk <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 5/4/19 3:00 AM, Pete Turnbull via cctalk wrote: > > > Once I can get the machine to stop wailing, that will be useful! > > > > I pulled the frame buffer out of my 2030 and got up as far as the > monitor on port 0 at 9600. My NVRAM is dead so I'm digging around > trying to find another DS1287. The machine has an XE1287 in it and > the battery terminals don't seem to be on the pin 12-13 end like the > Dallas. > > I ordered a DEC BC29 cable to play with the frame buffers on the > machines that I still have. > > Also, looking at the driver code it looks like the keyboard on the 2030 > expects to be XT protocol. > When I played with mine years ago, the only thing different about it was that it had a different device ID than expected. I had to hack FreeBSD of the era to recognize that keyboard id correctly. Don't know if I ever tried the opposite way or not. Warner
