[Info-vax] Hopelessly Pathetic Hardware Parts

[Hans Vlems]

On 25 aug, 10:20, Marc Van Dyck <marc.gr.vand... at invalid.skynet.be>
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> Hans Vlems used his keyboard to write :
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> > On 23 aug, 21:07, Marc Van Dyck <marc.gr.vand... at invalid.skynet.be>
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> >> ChrisQ was thinking very hard :
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> >>> On 08/23/12 04:42, Paul Sture wrote:
> >>>> This is a completely different story to the HP Microserver I bought last
> >>>> December.
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> >>>> These come with a screwdriver and enough correct screws to fit 4 disks,
> >>>> all neatly arranged on the inside of the front door. Mine has empty
> >>>> slots for 4 further screws. Presumably if I had ordered the same model
> >>>> without an optical drive, those screws would be present.
> >>> Well, they must have learned something from Compaq then :-). Compaq
> >>> machines came with a set of spare screws inside the case, in their own
> >>> little tapped holes, specially for the purpose. You could get any
> >>> Compaq machine to bits and replace drives, whatever with a single torx
> >>> driver.
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> >>> Properly sorted...
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> >>> Regards,
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> >>> Chris
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> >> That reminds me of the VAXstation 9000 series, that were so well
> >> engineered that you could exchange all replaceable parts with no tool
> >> at all. I still have a working VAXstation 9600 + expansion box at
> >> home...
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> > What is a VAXstation 9600? Or did you mean a VAXstation 4000-96?
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> Yes, 4000-96, sorry for the mistake.
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Nice system Marc. I own VAXstation 4000-90A's and consider them pretty
fast.
The build quality is good, one of the three has a hardware problem: a
nonfunctional grphics card.

Hans