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+Managed to find my old
+<a href="http://www.xeltek.com/">Xeltec</a> SuperPro
+and some 27256 parts buried in the far corner of the basement, 
+and so with the help of Jonathan Engdahl's
+<a href="http://users.safeaccess.com/engdahl/KDJ11.htm">KDJ11-D/S page</a>,
+my CPU board now thinks it's part of an 11/53 instead of a Decserver 
+550.  While I had the board out of the chassis, I changed
+the console serial port to 38k4, leaving the second serial port at 9k6 since
+that's what vtserver expects.
+
+Telling the monitor to boot from SCSI disk flashes the drive activity LED,
+then tells me the media isn't bootable.  That makes sense since I haven't put
+any suitable bits on the drive yet... and suggests I may be only another 
+serial cable away from trying to install 2.11bsd.
+
+[[!tag tags/retro]]