[Info-vax] "funny" thing on the usual auction site...

[Steven Schweda]

> VAXstation 3100-class boxes shipped in two configurations; with two
> rows of cooling slots (models 30 and 40), and taller boxes with three

   Shorter: 30 (older, slower) and 38 (newer, faster)?

> rows of slots (models 38 and 48).   There were no particular software

   Taller: 40 (older, slower) and 48 (newer, faster)?

> differences between the models 30 and 38, and the models 40 and 48,
> except in terms of physical expansion capabilities within the box.

   Or am _I_ confused?

   Other than CPU speed, I'd guess that a 30/40 was more
likely to have an ST506/SCSI card, and a 38/48 was more
likely to have a SCSI/SCSI card,  (Especially prized are the
early ST506/SCSI cards, which had all the parts needed
(except, perhaps the connectors) to use RD-series (MFM) hard
disks.  Of course, those may now be even harder to find than
SCSI floppy drives.)