[Info-vax] Out with Hurd, in with OpenVMS

[Bob Koehler]

In article <icidnV6F1er64vHRnZ2dnUVZ_hidnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
> 
> I used to own a DEC Rainbow.  A hard disk for it cost something like 
> $2200 from DEC.  I paid for $300 for a third party drive that worked 
> perfectly.  DEC wanted $700 for the memory chips to "max it out".  I 
> wound up paying $32 for third party RAM chips that worked perfectly.

   At about the time of the Rainbow, DEC didn't really want to be
   a disk or RAM vendor (thier proprietary floppy format must have come
   from someone who wasn't with-the-program 8-) ).

   In all the years I used stuff from DEC, I don't ever recall them
   wanting to be a RAM vendor.  But they went back and forth on disks,
   depending on whether what they wanted was readily available on the
   market.