DEC 3000

From: Dan Kolb <dankolb_at_ox.compsoc.net>
Date: Fri May 17 16:34:56 2002

On Friday 17 May 2002 22:14 pm, Christopher Smith wrote:

> Plenty of room. I have a disk no larger than 300M with VMS 7.2
> for VAX, DECWindows, DECNet, UCX (by any other name), etc, and
> space left. Of course, I use a separate, external 600MB disk for
> user home directories and the like.

That's fine then. I'm not really expecting to have much, if any, of my own
data :-)

> I wouldn't except the Alpha version is much larger. Just be careful
> not to overload it with stuff you won't use.

I'll try not to. :-)

> > problems with
> > simply pulling the CD drive out of my 3000/400, sticking it into the
> > 3000/300L, and booting VMS from the CD?
>
> Are they both single-ended SCSI? My guess is no problems at all.

Probably. If I remember by hardware reference correctly, they've both got
identical SCSI controllers - the 400 has two of them, the 300 only one.

Dan
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