DS200 and some other DEC stuff...

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Wed Aug 12 07:18:44 1998

< Quick question: what's a DEC DS200? (I'm assuming it means DECstation
< 200, but I'm also guessing it's x86-based and has no relation to the
< larger MIPS-based systems).

the only thin I know by that part number is a DECserver200, a 8port
eithernet/LAT terminal server 68000 based.

< Another question: what would be a reasonable offer for a stripped
< DECsystem 5500? The guy seems to want a (IMHO) ridiculous price for it

Unknown on price but those are fast systems in the MIPS lineup. It's
also not that old (to be under the 10 year rule).

< near what he wanted! From what I can tell the DS5500 would be not much
< more than a rare novelty (it IS a Qbus-based MIPS, after all), let alone
< competitor to modern servers. (I don't think it was even that much fast
< than it's TC relatives.)

TC??? It was a fast machine when it was introduced. fast compared to
modern with PII/233s and the like is a unfair comparison.

< Also, is there a FAQ or something somewhere explaining common hardware?

DECs linup was huge so that would be a large list (the option module list
was several very thick volumes and listed everything DEC had a part number
for)

< I'd like explanation on the DECmate as well, but that seems like it woul
< be a FAQ by now.

crank up your web thingie and follow the PDP-8 trail. The DECmate series
is a PDP-8 in CMOS clothing. There are some BIG faq out there for that
one.

Look here:

Frequently Asked Questions about DEC PDP-8 models and options.

        By Douglas Jones, jones_at_cs.uiowa.edu
        (with help from many folks)

Sites known to carry reasonably current FTPable copies of this file:

        ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/alt.sys.pdp8
        ftp://ftp.uu.net/usenet/news.answers/dec-faq
        ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk:/pub/usenet/news.answers/alt.sys.pdp8

Allison
Received on Wed Aug 12 1998 - 07:18:44 BST

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