Here's a question. I know there used to be SCSI boards for microvax IIs, can you boot from those? If so, wouldn't it be better in the long run to go SCSI, so you can just go out and buy a new disk instead of dealing with 10-20 year old failure prone disks? I guess that brings up a question that's been slowly growing to me. Is it more important to keep a classic running, or to keep it original? If for example I get my hands on a VAX 8350, is it preferable to keep the big old disks that go with it, even though I KNOW they are way over MTBF already (not to mention the space and power requirements) or to get ahold of the scsi card for it and put a pair of half-gig SCSI disks from a surplus house in a SCSI box and run the machine from those? I know there's no "right" answer, but I'm curious what folk think. -- Jim Strickland jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Vote Meadocrat! Bill and Opus in 2000 - Who ELSE is there? -----------------------------------------------------------------------

I dunno, $150-200 seems to be the norm with the dealers. What gets me is I just checked the page out, and they want $250 for a RD53!!! Personally I'm happier now that I'm running on ESDI drives, as I've been able to find several spares cheap. I'm still depressed that I missed saving a case of brand new RD54's from being recycled by my local recycler, I missed them by about two days :^( Zane | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Adminstrator | | healyzh(a)ix.netcom.com (primary) | Linux Enthusiast | | healyzh(a)holonet.net (alternate) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.dragonfire.net/~healyzh/ |