VAXmate for Windows

[Allison]

>
>Subject: Re: VAXmate for Windows
>   From: Adrian Graham <witchy at binarydinosaurs.co.uk>
>   Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 00:03:30 +0000
>     To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>On 19/11/07 14:23, "Allison" <ajp166 at bellatlantic.net> wrote:
>
>> If the VAXmates have the optional hard disk box mind the cooling if RD32
>> (ST250? 40mb) as it ran very hot and tended to fail.  The RD31 (st225 20mb)
>> was lower power, cooler and far more reliable.
>
>This is why I've kept some ST225s behind. I'm pretty sure both VAXmates are
>hard driveless, though I can't really speak for the boxed one as I've never
>really delved in further than below the top foam :)

Generally thy are.  Theres a seperate underbox that adds the hard drive
and controller.

>> If you make it operational the VAXmate was a PCSA(Pathworks) terminal
>> with Ethernet access to shared and private files on VAX/OpenVMS.  The
>> result made it a very useful system.  Typical VAXmate had 2MB of ram
>> some had 4, back then that was a large amount.
>
>Yep, the one I remember using was a PCSA terminal. This was shortly before
>we went through the sheer pain of a PCSA to LANMAN migration with Pathworks
>V5, that's a few weekends of my life I'm not going to get back, heh.

It was during my time at DEC and they wer like flies there.  I still 
have kits for PCSAV4 and V5.

Allison


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