30 Sep
2007
30 Sep
'07
4:50 p.m.
I have a DEC 4000 (Futurebus+, 1 CPU installed approx
384MB RAM,
IIRC), and a "no-name" AXPpci33. My DEC 4000 came with one 5.25" SCSI
drive and 3 3.5" SCSI drives, with OSF/1 or similar on one disk, and
OpenVMS on another.
DEC 4000/AS8000 have interested me for a while- were there any other
commercially available general-purpose computers using the Futurebus+?
I know that most AS8ks probably don't have the Futurebus+ adaptor, but
it is available. Pity they are so big.
I bought the AXPpci33 as a bare board, but the
DEC 4000 came from Uni Surplus and used to be known as "Oscar", the
machine that ran the card catalog for the library system at The Ohio
State University.
"Card Catalog" - ILS (Integrated Library System) please! They do so
much more than simple cataloging now. I realized how much of a computer
snob I was this week- my school system is considering replacing their
current ILS (Dynix Scholar, circa 1988 interface) with either Follett
or DynixSirsi. I have a hard time taking Follett seriously because it's
Windows-NT only.