Subject: Re: Vaxstation 4000/90
To: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis@mcmanis.com>
From: Tim Franklin <tim@pelican.org>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/04/2002 21:30:23
On Friday 04 January 2002  9:16 pm, Tim Franklin wrote:
> > That being said, the 4000/90 (vs the 90a) is a reasonably fast for a =
VAX
> > and can take SCSI peripherals which is a plus. They don't suffer from=
 the
> > 1G boot drive limitation like the 3100's do. They take a non-standard=
 DEC
> > memory that is fairly easy to find in 4MB chunks but less available i=
n
> > the nicer 16MB chunks. A 32MB system (full memory of 4MB modules) is =
a
> > fun VMS box.
>
> OK, I'll see if I can check with the seller how much is in it, or at le=
ast
> how many slots are full.  I don't think they're that sure what they've =
got,
> beyond what it says on the label...

Right, it has an RZ26L (1GB, yes?), and "all memory slots full", which I=20
guess means at least 32MB, possibly as much as 128MB.

I think I'm going for this...

Thanks again,
Tim.