[Info-vax] coming soon: old DEC hardware free to a good home

[P. Sture]

In article <4abd01f7$0$26328$9b536df3 at news.fv.fi>,
 Kari Uusimäki <uusimaki at exdecWITHOUTTHISfinland.org> wrote:

> Just to add some detail to the above answer.
> The 3100 series was called MicroVAX, but the 4100 series was called VAX 
> 4000 model 100 (or 100A, 105A, 106A and 108).
> The main system board was indeed the same on some models of MicroVAX 
> 3100 and VAX 4000-10*.
> And like earlier said, the main difference between the two model series 
>   was two SCSI buses on MicroVAX and two DSSI buses on VAX 4000-10*. The 
> VAX 4000-10* had also a SCSI bus.

The name 4000-100 led to endless confusion when we also had a pair of 
Alpha 4100 systems. IIRC we ended up calling the latter "Forty one 
hundreds".

-- 
Paul Sture