An infoserver is a small dedicated computer that you can hang disks on and
then mount them over the network. In VMS this is done with a network driver
called LAD - local area disk. It works pretty well, although speed is nothing
to write home about. To my knowledge the infoserver 100 *only* speaks LAD,
so if you've got ideas about mounting it from the unix world via NFS, forget
about them. There was a LAD driver for Ultrix though.
These things are from the days when CD drives were expensive, basically.
You could put any external scsi device on them (I think even tape drives)
but we used them for CDROM distribution at the university where I dealt with
them.
> >Does anyone have a spare Infoserver 100/150
> >for sale?
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Jim Strickland
jim_at_DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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