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

[Michael Moroney]

Howard S Shubs <howard at shubs.net> writes:

>In article <5M8vezmCoT7q at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
> koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) wrote:

>>    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.

>No DSSI disks have been made in something like 15 years.  They're all on 
>the edge of failure at best.  Do not spend money on them.

If he can get a hold of something like an HSDxx, then SCSI drives in
a BA356 tower can be used on a DSSI bus.  I don't see any advantages of
doing so if you can simply hook them to a SCSI controller instead.