12 Oct
2004
12 Oct
'04
10:21 a.m.
It only has
384MB of RAM so if I get it I'll want to bump that up if
I can get it cheap.
*cough* OK... if you say so... I'm happy to have 16MB in my 8200, and
I'd be happier if it weren't on 5 cards! (2MB and 4MB) Unless you
plan to run some monster stuff or a *lot* of simultaneous users, a
VAX (as opposed to an Alpha) VMS system should be happy with a lot
less than what you already have.
The 8250 I had
I bought from Mannesman-Tally here in Kent. $500 and I had
to de-install it myself. It was a fun machine. I had no business putting
it in the upstairs of my house though. Especially with four RA81s.
Ooph! My 8200/8300 is in the basement, along with one RA81, and a TU80
(which I'd be using if I could get my DWBUA working).
You might want to consider a newer version of VMS,
then. I don't have any
experience with TCP/IP on pre-OpenVMS 7.x, but I know VMS 5.x didn't come
with anything except DECnet. There were several options back in the day for
VMS 5.x machines, but at work then, we never went with any of them (we made
SNA and Bisync hardware/software ourselves, so we just used our own products
in a point-to-point HASP network to move stuff around on the machines that
didn't happen to have DDCMP serial cards and DECnet).
It's been too long since I've looked at those tapes. The version I have
is not "5.2", but "5-5.2". Regardless, I suppose I'm going to
need a new
version of OpenVMS for it. Will the old PAKs I have for v5 work with
newer versions?
g.
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