VAX-11/780 System Installation Manual

This document is the VAX-11/780 System Installation Manual, published by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in October 1978. It serves as a comprehensive guide for DEC field service engineers and user personnel for the installation and acceptance of the VAX-11/780 computer system.

The manual outlines a step-by-step procedure covering:

1. Handling the Packaged Equipment: Precautions and procedures for moving, uncrating, and transporting the system components to the installation site.
2. Hardware Installation: Detailed instructions for shipment inventory, unpacking, cabinet disassembly and assembly, performing power checks, connecting intercabinet cabling, installing peripheral devices, and the initial system power-up.
3. System Checkout and Acceptance: A sequence of diagnostic programs to be run to verify system functionality, including microdiagnostics, CPU cluster exercisers, tape drive functional timers and reliability tests, disk formatter and reliability programs, DMC exerciser, multiterminal and local terminal diagnostics, line printer diagnostics, and bus interaction tests. It also covers the VAX/VMS operating system bootstrap and device mnemonic identification.

Additionally, the manual includes an appendix with specific installation details for the SBI expander cabinet, TU45 tape drive, DR11-B, and CR11 card reader diagnostic additions. The overall goal is to ensure the delivered VAX-11/780 system matches the customer's order, is undamaged, and is fully operational for final acceptance.