[Info-vax] Hobbyist kits

[Paul Sture]

On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 07:55:11 -0600, Bob Koehler wrote:

> In article
> <160a3842-849d-4013-8983-2d11fb9079a4 at em9g2000vbb.googlegroups.com>,
> Rich Jordan <jordan at ccs4vms.com> writes:
>> 
>> Actually I like the 'old junk' 650MB disks; they're guaranteed to work
>> in even older CD-R capable drives that can get finicky with the bigger
>> disks, they were made before the total commoditized economizing of
>> manufacture of the blanks, and often with better quality/longer lasting
>> dye/substrate materials.  The blue-dye Sony and gold-dye Kodak (which
>> were made by an OEM who had a rep for making the best quality disks
>> back then) are likely to remain viable and readable quite a bit longer
>> than the cheap silver-dye chinese 52X wunderdisks available now.
> 
>    Well, I've got the image loaded on a 700 MB CD-R now and that's
>    working.  But the old drives on my first Alpha won't read any of the
>    CD-R written by my new Mac.  It did read CD-R written by my old Mac.
> 
>    My second Alpha can read the drive, so I've set up MOP to boot the
>    first Alpha, but I haven't got Infoserver services working yet. When
>    I do, I'll start a long overdue upgrade.

VAXman has the instructions to set up an Infoserver on his site. It's an 
interesting read anyway, even if you don't need the instructions.

http://tmesis.org/?e=40



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Paul Sture