[Info-vax] terminal servers etc

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In article <e1f0cedb-ab75-4857-9e27-ea31b4b40405 at a15g2000vbf.googlegroups.com>, F H <fhsjvl at gmail.com> writes:
>For those who want to find a DECserver 90M on eBay or somewhere else:
>please note that not all DECserver 90M terminal servers have a flash
>memory card present!
>
>There are two or even three types of 90M devices:
>
>- Those without a flash card. They can be recognized by the absence of
>an inscription on the front panel. They rely on MOP to download their
>OS.
>- Those with a 1 MB flash card. They have the inscription "1M Flash"
>on the front panel. The OS is on that flash card but it takes several
>minutes to decompress the OS on the flash card into memory. They will
>download the OS over the network only when a special procedure is
>followed at power-on time.
>- It seems that a version exists with a 2 MB (or more) flash card.
>This system boots stand-alone too and very fast because there is no
>decompression to be done. I have however never seen this version.

Correct.  On my DECserver90Ms it shows this inscription at the left (or
top as they're mounted in DEChubs).  I've never opened one to see if it
is possible to put larger flash chips in one.  An acedemic exercise for
a rainy day.
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