27 Dec
2012
27 Dec
'12
10:53 p.m.
At 4:15 AM +0100 12/28/12, polemon wrote:
I live in Germany, there haven't been too many DEC
users here, DEC was
mostly USA. I'll pay for shipping and basically any price you ask, except
it's those comical prices on ebay (4000 USD for a VAXstation main board
with CPU, no RAM, no case, no drives; or 60 USD for a single RAM module).
You probably don't want to hear this, but it *might* be cheaper to
find a system with RAM in it. I'm reminded of the AlphaStation
500/333 I foolishly bought from Compaq. It has 96Mb of RAM, so not
really usable for VMS. I was able to get a DEC PWS 433au (a better
system by far) for far less money than the RAM upgrade.
Except for certain Alpha's (using PC parity SIMMs or DIMMs) getting
RAM, as a hobbyist, for DEC gear has always been painful.
Zane
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