[Info-vax] Some good news !

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <+bC6aJdZLCFW at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
	koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
> 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).

And in the name o0f support Hp will sell me this hardware real cheap, right?

> 
>    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.

DSSI, now theres a cheap solution.  Priced any deives lately.  And thenr
there is the 3300 I would apparently now need to hook it up to.

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

We weren't talking about what support was available 20 years ago, we were
talking about now.  You were complaining about MS dropping support for
older systems and claiming I could still get everything I needed to run
a current version of VMS on mY MicroVAX-II.

I guess HP's support for obsolete gear is no better than MS's afterall.

bill
 

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