[Info-vax] Multi-site OpenVMS field upgrade options?

[Dave Froble]

On 4/12/2019 1:08 PM, Rod Regier wrote:
> re: float systems for "pseudo hardware upgrade" approach.
>
> It would also be necessary to source and acquire large numbers of "old new stock" 80 pin SCSI drives for the DS10L, DS15 and RX2600 units. (two per system)
> That's a serious challenge given that such disk products have ceased manufacture several years ago.
>
> The drives on the second system would need to be "long term production quality"
> since it would be too dangerous to move the new data on the second node back to the old drives on the first node later.
>

David Turner appears to have plenty of disk drives.

Some he will not re-sale, because he won't warranty them for a year. 
He's shipped me a number of drives, for the cost of shipping.  More than 
I'll ever use.  So far, the ones I've used are working well.

Even the ones he sells are priced "right".

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