Here's a question. I know there used to be SCSI boards for microvax IIs,
can you boot from those? If so, wouldn't it be better in the long run to
go SCSI, so you can just go out and buy a new disk instead of dealing with
10-20 year old failure prone disks? I guess that brings up a question that's
been slowly growing to me.
Is it more important to keep a classic running, or to keep it original? If for
example I get my hands on a VAX 8350, is it preferable to keep the big old
disks that go with it, even though I KNOW they are way over MTBF already
(not to mention the space and power requirements) or to get ahold of the scsi
card for it and put a pair of half-gig SCSI disks from a surplus house in a
SCSI box and run the machine from those?
I know there's no "right" answer, but I'm curious what folk think.
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Jim Strickland
jim_at_DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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