12 Oct
2004
12 Oct
'04
8:40 a.m.
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 01:40:03PM -0700, Gene Buckle wrote:
I may (and I emphisize _may_) be getting a VAX
6000/610 for the cost of
shipping it. Is there a SCSI adapter available for this machine? I'd
like to avoid running RA series drives if I can avoid it.
There were VAXBI SCSI cards available at one time, but I have never
used one, and I can't recall the vendor's name. My recollection was
that MSRP was $10K for either MSCP _or_ TMSCP, $20K for the firmware
that did both.
I'd love one, but I think you'd just about have to find a machine that
already had one inside.
I _think_ they were never popular because people typically had a cluster
and HSC storage boxes or locally attached disk on a KDB50 (my 8200 came
(to my employer) used in 1989 for about $12K w/KDB50 and we threw on an
old RA81).
Last thing I did to it was try to get either a DEBNI or DEBNT working.
No dice. It was enough months ago that I forget what was up.
-ethan
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Ethan Dicks, A-130-S Current South Pole Weather at 12-Oct-2004 20:30 Z
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APO AP 96598 Wind 17.6 kts Grid 027 Barometer 680.2 mb (10619. ft)
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