[Info-vax] Tadpole Alphabook 1 at last!

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <8JS2q.118520$Ll1.89942 at newsfe24.ams2>, "Colin Butcher"
<colinDOT.butcherAT at xdeltaDOT.coDOT.uk> writes: 

> It will work with the BA35x shelves and pizza boxes, provided you use 8bit 
> discs and the 8bit HD SCSI connector cable and the 8bit SE terminator on the 
> pizza box.
> 
> You can boot from the external discs / CD. It's how I set mine up.

OK, but booting from external disks rather goes against the idea of a 
laptop.

It is no longer supported with the latest VMS.  (Of course, it might 
work.)  Such a beast would be nice to have, but I wouldn't want to run 
an old version of VMS just for that.

How does it compare in speed to more familiar ALPHA systems?