Tape media

From: Huw Davies <Huw.Davies_at_kerberos.davies.net.au>
Date: Mon Mar 24 01:03:00 2003

At 08:47 PM 23/03/2003 -0500, Gunther Schadow wrote:

>Hey Zane, I may be a UNIX weenie from your perspective, and I did take
>a day or two before I explored the DEC7000, and it will not run VMS,
>but I am not so crazy as to "wreck" good tape drives :-) I just wish
>the 20GB tape media wasn't almost as expensive as a 20 GB hard drive

I may be mis-parsing this, but I can certainly confirm that a DEC7000 will
run OpenVMS. I used to manage a VMS cluster that had two VAX-6620s and a
DEC7740 all running OpenVMS 6.2 very nicely.

Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies_at_kerberos.davies.net.au
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