Subject: Re: MORE: Vaxen List Update...
To: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
From: Vance Dereksen <vance@ikickass.org>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/19/2001 13:58:13
Responses inline:
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 02:39:47PM -0400, linc wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> >
> > > > (6) DECstation 5000/260 w/480 MB RAM & 36 GB Disk running NetBSD
> > > > (5) DECstation 5900/260 w/480 MB RAM & 36 GB Disk running NetBSD
> >
> > He's lying.. He's got to be Lying. Either that or it's 6 Dec's with a
> > *TOTAL* of 480 ram and 36gig which equals 40meg and 6gig a piece :-)
>
> I saw 5000/200s (might have been 240s, but I'm pretty sure they were 200s)
> with hundreds of megabytes of RAM when I was at DEC. Actually, they must
> have been 200s -- I left not long after the 5000/200 release and wasn't
> around very frequently thereafter.
I bought my RAM (at probably inflated prices) from a scrapper who got a
whole bunch of /200s with 128 MB RAM each. I bought *all* of his RAMs.
> And, of course, a 36GB SCSI disk can now be had for well under $200, if
> you're willing to use an SCA disk with a converter.
I work for IBM, so I got employee price on bulk surplus, so I got my
drives for under $100. They were 68-pinners that I use with converters.
Peace... Sridhar
> --
> Thor Lancelot Simon tls@rek.tjls.com
> And now he couldn't remember when this passion had flown, leaving him so
> foolish and bewildered and astray: can any man?
> William Styron
>