[Info-vax] Price/Value of Used VAX 4000/700

[Michael Moroney]

koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:

>In article <howard-1D8DF9.22582619102011 at news.giganews.com>, Howard S Shubs <howard at shubs.net> writes:
>> 
>> Don't bother with DSSI disks unless you can find someone making new 
>> ones, which you won't.  Buying used toilet paper to replace your used 
>> toilet paper strikes me as a waste of money.  If your machine has SCSI, 
>> go with that.

>   If all he has is a DSSI bus, he'd better grab all the DSSI disks
>   he can.  Adding a SCSI, if the system doesn't already have one, might
>   not quite be free.

And there's at least one system (forget which one) that, whether you
have a DSSI bus or a SCSI bus depends on whether you plug in DSSI
or SCSI devices into it.  (you can't mix them on the same bus, however)