[Info-vax] Tadpole Alphabook 1 at last!

[Paul Sture]

In article 
<748bf803-de0b-4168-842f-c6c9f21bcd0a at h15g2000yqa.googlegroups.com>,
 pos <prosullivan at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Um. there was a used, working, with the correct network card, tdpole
> alphabook on ebay last week: I got it. Sorry to those who bid, and
> missed.

Congratulations!
 
> But it had a docking station [???? never heard of one of those with a
> alphabook] with it.
> Questions:
> My first task is to back  up the disk. Can I plug a ba356 in the back?
> My ex-DEC colleagues tell me this done.
> The dirve is user replaceable. but a feeble 1.2Gb. I can get 4/9/36
> scsi 2.5 drives cheap. Worth a go? If anyone has a copy of the user
> and service manual I will glladly pay.
> Apart from chaining it to my wrist at any Openvms meetings. I will be
> lugging it with me around the world at various conferences watch for
> it (and me) at the VMware conference in Las Vegas end-August. Well the
> laptop run a VM....

LOL!  Watch out for other attendees wearing long coats.  They may be 
concealing bolt cutters :-)

-- 
Paul Sture