What if the VAXStation screen goes black with some strange white window outlines and error messages displayed?
On older VAXes, there was a separate, hard copy terminal used for printing “console”, system type messages. Since there is only one terminal hooked up to the VAXStation directly, any console error messages are now displayed on that terminal. Unfortunately, displaying such an error message leaves the terminal in “console mode”. To restore the screen to your normal windowing interface, press Ctrl-F2 (simultaneously hold down the Ctrl key and the F2 key). • Is there a name for the middle slot on the removable disk drive enclosures on the VAXStations? On the data taking machines (Geiger, Hertz, Stark, Hahn, and Stern), the middle slot is already occupied with a “scratch” disk defined as user. There are already individual directories defined on that disk, such as user:[prichard] or user:[lcocke], but the whole disk can be written to or files erased by anyone logged in as ONLINE. Do not spin down or remove those disks! On the analysis machines (Lamb, Rydbrg, Balmer, and Zeeman), the middle s
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