[Info-vax] Backup TK50 tapes

[Bob Koehler]

In article <kgipko$6j8$1 at speranza.aioe.org>, glen herrmannsfeldt <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> writes:
> 
> As well as I remember, 256K was common for the early VAX, so again
> why would anyone want to use more than 32K for a tape buffer?
> (64K if you double buffer.)  Neither IBM nor DEC planned well for
> memory prices going down as fast as they did.

   256K RAM?  The first VAX we had shipped with DEC's minumum 1/2 MB
   RAM under VMS 1.5.

   I don't recall seeing VAXen with less RAM, even 11/725 I think
   started with about 1MB.