[Info-vax] Some good news !

[JF Mezei]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:

> Huh?  Name one disk for a MIcroVAX-II that is "cheap". 

Since sales of brand spanking new All Mighty Microvax II stopped last
century, it is likely that those MVIIs that are atill around were
upgraded and can support SCSI disks.

Yes, back then a SCSI controller costed a lot. But it allowed you to buy
bigger and cheaper disks than the RD53.

>Can't run an RA.

KDA50 controller for RA drives is fully supported in the MVII. But the
electrical costs of running one outweight the costs of buying a cheap
SCSI drive.

>  A SCSI controller costs more than the
> entire machine. 

NOW, yes. But back then, the SCSI controllers were very cheap compared
to the cost of the machine.


> What media that
> can be used on a MicroVAX-II is still supported?

You forget ethernet. If the MVII is still stuck with an RD54, you could
use than as a swap/pagefile and boot from ethernet and use remote drives.



> Unless you had a SCSI controller I really don't see how you could load
> VMS from a CD.  And, if you can find a QBUS SCSI controller it is anything
> but cheap.

That is because they have high resale value because they are a bit rare.