Upgrading a VAX4000-200 to a -500, -700 etc.?

From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com>
Date: Sat Jun 1 21:34:59 2002

Hi Gunthar,

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but the only way to upgrade the
4000/200 to a 4000/705a is to replace the backplane in the chassis. The
4000/300 and above only run in the BA430 chassis (whereas the 4000/200
could run in the BA213 and BA215)

Sometimes a /300 has the faster backplane, all /400's and above do.

--Chuck

At 07:54 PM 6/1/02 -0500, Gunther Schadow wrote:
>Hi,
>
>
>I told you I got that VAX 4000-200 (not quite in my hands yet but
>soon.) But I really want to make it the fastest VAX around, i.e.
>that would be a -700 or something, right? Is such upgrade done
>simply by replacing the CPU blade? Or is there anything different
>about the Q-bus, PSU or whatnot?
Received on Sat Jun 01 2002 - 21:34:59 BST