22 Nov
2007
22 Nov
'07
2:03 p.m.
Subject: Re: VAXmate for Windows
From: Adrian Graham <witchy at binarydinosaurs.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:03:30 +0000
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
classiccmp.org>
On 19/11/07 14:23, "Allison" <ajp166 at bellatlantic.net> wrote:
Generally thy are. Theres a seperate underbox that adds the hard drive
and controller.
If the VAXmates have the optional hard disk box
mind the cooling if RD32
(ST250? 40mb) as it ran very hot and tended to fail. The RD31 (st225 20mb)
was lower power, cooler and far more reliable.
This is why I've kept some ST225s behind. I'm pretty sure both VAXmates are
hard driveless, though I can't really speak for the boxed one as I've never
really delved in further than below the top foam :) If you make it
operational the VAXmate was a PCSA(Pathworks) terminal
with Ethernet access to shared and private files on VAX/OpenVMS. The
result made it a very useful system. Typical VAXmate had 2MB of ram
some had 4, back then that was a large amount.
Yep, the one I remember using was a PCSA terminal. This was shortly before
we went through the sheer pain of a PCSA to LANMAN migration with Pathworks
V5, that's a few weekends of my life I'm not going to get back, heh.
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