[Info-vax] Some good news !

[Bob Koehler]

In article <75m6n9F18neh6U2 at mid.individual.net>, billg999 at cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
> 
> 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.

   We loaded a CD on a MV II using DEC's CD drive and controller sold
   specifically for that purpose, no SCSI involved (though it may have
   been internally similar).

   We also had RF series drives via a DSSI adapter from DEC, one of
   which was the second end of a DSSI shared with an MV 3300 so that
   no one system was a single point of failure in the cluster.

   At the time we bought these things the price was reasonable compared
   to the purchase price of the MV II.