Compaq sets final order dates for VAXen.

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
Date: Tue Sep 12 02:11:12 2000

Well I know that the only KA6xx CPU technical manual you can order from DEC
literature is the KA640 manual. (Why this one? I don't know, even the KA670
manual is out of print!)

--Chuck

At 07:47 AM 9/12/00 +0100, you wrote:
>jorgen.pehrson_at_compaq.com wrote:
>
> >Plenty of the hardware documents are available (internally at Compaq) as
> >scanned PDF files. And those documents will at least not end up in
> >/dev/null.
>
>Having current and semi-current manuals kicking around
>isn't really the issue though. I've seen more PDP-8,
>PDP-10 and PDP-11 era manuals outside of COMPAQ/Digital/DEC
>than I ever saw inside.
>
>For VAX, PC and Alpha material the situation was
>much better inside.
>
>I wonder how many VAX hardware manuals will still be available
>internally to COMPAQ in maybe ten (or five) years time?
>
>Antonio
Received on Tue Sep 12 2000 - 02:11:12 BST