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

[Roy Omond]

On 20/10/2011 18:01, Michael Moroney wrote:
> 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)

That was the DEC 4000-7x0 ("Fang") system.  Not a bad system at all.

I used to have 2 of them, which I sold here in the UK.

See:
http://fixunix.com/dec/97604-sale-2-x-dec-4000-720-rack-mounted-plus-add-ons.html