10 May
2004
10 May
'04
10:24 a.m.
At 01:21 PM 5/10/2004, John Allain wrote:
It's the latter - a VAX 3500 in a BA123 into which I installed my old
GPX card set.
Some other answers about the system - it does have a RQDX3. It boots
off of floppy (RX50) currently and did boot the RD54 from my other VAX.
The "RX22" mistake was mine - it sounds like a common 1.2 Mb floppy
drive might just work as a replacement - this would allow NetBSD floppy
boot at least.
-Rick
I have a
MV-III with a DEQNA interface and RQDX3 w/RD54,
and a MOP boot with all filesystems *and* swap on remote NFS
partitions is considerably faster than running on the RD54.
My impression is that in order of performance it goes MFM -> DSSI
-> SDI and that the vS3500 was considered a performance machine,
leading to the 3520 and '40. (going out on a limb now) I would actually
be surprised if DEC ever shipped a vS3500 with MFM drives.
Perhaps TMaC's system was customised by a prior user?