--- allisonp_at_world.std.com wrote:
> > Yes. A daughter card for the CPU and a card under the skirt...
>
> Yes, I'd bet that's seriously rare.
I've only ever seen the one.
> > 1 8300 w/16Mb, KDB50+shared RA81, DEBNT
>
> Seriously nice VAX.
Thanks. We got it c. 1989 for VAXBI development. I got to write the firmware
and device driver for our intellegent serial card. I currently have a box in
the basement with 80% of the world's production of it - 8 cards out of 10.
After all the development, it was never a big seller due to the fact that the
world had moved on. At least we priced the card high enough to break even
on the production costs and the cost on the 8300, barely. If you've ever
wondered why VAXBI SCSI cards cost so much, it's because a) they can and b)
nobody ever sold more than a handful of anything for the VAXBI except DEC.
> The only unique thing about the VS2000s I have is they 8mb, 12 and 14mb
> ram respectively.
Isn't it 4Mb, 6Mb, 12Mb and 14Mb? I have a 4Mb add-in card and one that is
half-full, but no 12Mb add-in cards. :-(
> A note on that is MV2000 is not fast mostly due to disk
> IO but adding ram to the 14mb limit does really help if there is any
> swaping going on. Of course finding ram is the real trick.
Indeed. I know that when I looked at expanding my MV2000s, buying a ram card
from a reseller was always more expensive than the CPU itself.
-ethan
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Received on Thu Dec 02 1999 - 23:57:32 GMT