13 Jul
2002
13 Jul
'02
8:28 p.m.
On Sat, Jul 13, 2002 at 03:43:09PM -0500, Doc Shipley wrote:
I just picked up a 4000vlc last week (the guy at
Goodwill was pretty
contemptuous of "that old terminal" and sold me the VLC, a VT320, and an
LK402 keyboard for $5) It's not as fast as the /60, and according to
DEC spec will only take 24M of memory, but it does take regular 36-bit
(parity) 4MB SIMMs. It's also got a rep for being darn picky about hard
drives. NetBSD labelled and partitioned a Seagate OEM 2G just fine, so
I think the pickiness is more VMS than VLC. Voh-doh-di-oh. :)
WHen I had a VLC it was picky about cd-rom drives too; it refused to properly
complete a VMS install off a Plextor CD-ROM, but worked off a RRD42 just
fine. This was an OEM / no-logo Plextor though.
Bill
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Bill Bradford
mrbill(a)mrbill.net
Austin, TX