Subject: Re: Alpha 3000/800 Netbooting problems...
To: Toru Nishimura <nisimura@is.aist-nara.ac.jp>
From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
List: port-alpha
Date: 06/26/1998 08:15:58
As Toru Nishimura wrote...
> >> Model 300 has an option to install RX26
> >> SCSI floppy inside (our site once had 200 of RX26).  Other models did
> >> not have the room.
> >
> > You might want to keep an open eye for trash cans /dumpsters with
> > DECstations in them.
> 
> Although DEC3000/300 and Personal DECstation had the same chassises
> which could install the 3.5" floppy drive inside with the same form
> factor, two were difference beasts.  Model 300 had SCSI floppy drive,
> and Personal DECstation had "other type" FD (probably standard "bare"
> drive).  I can see RISC ULTRIX installation guide explicitely
> emphasizes that FD in Personal DECstation is not SCSI, supposedly

It was not a Personal DECstation I think, rather a DECstation 5000/something

They were also found in VAXstations. I have mine in a small Sun tabletop
enclosure, you can move it from system to system which I think is very
useful.

Wilko
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