[Info-vax] Hopelessly Pathetic Hardware Parts

[Marc Van Dyck]

Hans Vlems explained on 27/08/2012 :
> On 25 aug, 10:20, Marc Van Dyck <marc.gr.vand... at invalid.skynet.be>
> wrote:
>> 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>
>>> wrote:
>>>> 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.
>> 
>>>>>> 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.
>> 
>>>>> Properly sorted...
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>>>>> Regards,
>> 
>>>>> Chris
>> 
>>>> 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

Yes it is a nice system. Present from my manager when I left Digital
in January 1999. It was purchased as a 90A but the motherboard failed,
and as there was no 90A in stock, a 96 motherboard was installed
instead. I did not complain !

It's now in cluster with an XP900 and an RX2600 should follow soon,
for the mythical 3-architecture cluster...

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Marc Van Dyck