--- Dave Woodman <dave_at_naffnet.org.uk> wrote:
> Ethan Dicks wrote:
> > I know how to play with tapes/disks/etc. under VMS. What I lack
> > at the moment is a VAX with CD-ROM (the best I have is an Alpha
> > with CD-ROM).
> >
>
> If you can cluster your VAX and Alpha then you should be able to use the
> drive remotely.
This is not a facetious question (I know little about clustering... we
had several standalone VAXen back in the old days, with 64Kbps sync
links between them, either running HASP or DDCMP)... *can* you cluster
a Digital Unix box with a VMS box?
> Alternatively, if you have enough disk space on the VAX then you could...
> dump the cdrom to a file and mount it as a virtual disk...
Hmm... That's an idea. I do have this 1.2GB 3rd party ESDI box that
is one of the things I boot the 8200 from. If only I could get the DEBNT
working on the 8200. I also have a couple of KA630s and and a DEQNA,
but no DELQA. :-(
I have a quantity of 32-bit DEC stuff from 1984 - 1993, but little
that's newer (not that I've turned anything down). I guess I need
to make a road-trip to Virginia - a buddy of mine has a VAXstation
in his closet with my name on it. He got it when they decommissioned
it about two weeks before they laid him off (first the machine, then
the operator...) He's been storing it ever since. I found out last
summer that he _did_ bring it with him when he relocated. Now I just
need to get me and it in the same room. That should solve my
VAX/SCSI/Ethernet-in-the-same-box problems. Mostly, I have two of
three in the same place at the same time.
-ethan
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