22 May
2002
22 May
'02
12:52 p.m.
--- Christopher Smith <csmith(a)amdocs.com> wrote:
True. An ST-251 is one of the most common ST-506 drives, due to its
being shipped with the real PC-AT.
I'm sure that Ethernet was standard on the VAXstation 2000. I have at
least one MicroVAX 2000 - it has the DHT32 8-port serial option, but
did not come with Ethernet. It came out of a law office that had
terminals on everyone's desk (I got it when they asked their support
guys how much it would cost to add another 8 terminals - they went
with PC-XTs...)
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Message-----
From: Ethan Dicks [mailto:erd_6502@yahoo.com]
Perhaps. Large RD-series drives are somewhat
rare these days.
I will say that with a (pretty common) seagate 40M disk, you
can get a bare install of VMS 5.5 on there... and that's more than enough to drive a tk50 and
transfer files to
other systems over DECNet.
Our production system for a shop of dozens of people used a 67MB disk
(but the swap was on another device).
Could also netboot it from the other system.
True.
single memory
card over 4MB (and only one ethernet module). The uVAX
Really? I don't believe I've ever seen one without the ethernet module. Were they sold apart from the systems? I wouldn't
expect them to be
available in most cases apart from a system that was sold as a MicroVAX.
Probably true.
That said, DEC was supposedly very prolific with these
systems, and you
ought to be able to get plenty of parts for them. The extreme
configurations (color graphics, 8/12[?]MB memory options, etc) are going
to be more difficult. The median seems to be b&w VAXStation, ethernet,
4M RAM option. That kind of thing ought to be pretty easy to find.
Agreed. That is the most common configuration.
Wolfgang Moeller's SCSI drivers for these systems.
(Which I've not
tried yet, but will eventually...
I haven't tried that either. I got it as patches, but not patches
to my version of the ROMs. I got them as a solid block of code to
be split into ROM images, but haven't played the swapping game to
figure out which ROM works in which socket. :-(
-ethan
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