Mail Archives: opendos/1997/09/18/12:40:59
Roberto Alsina wrote:
>
> On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, -= ArkanoiD =- wrote:
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> > Floppy tape! Pfff...
It works. I can run it during the day when I'm not there, no problem.
> > MicroVAXen,sure. I don't have enough place at home to keep big ones ;)
> > VAXen are always good. Forever. DEC still does manufacture them.
I wasn't keen on the MicroVAXen, they weren't really competitive with
other processors even when they came out. The same with the LSI-11
range, although my main objection to those was the lack of a proper
user interface - the 18 address/data switches, lights on each bus
line, etc. I mean, how are you expected to load the bootstrap into
core without switches and lights?
But I did like lots of things about the VAX (and although it's unpopular
to say so, I liked a lot of things about VMS as well), and if someone
happened to be jumking a MicroVAX or three I wouldn't object to giving
them house room. I wouldn't say no to a PDP-11 either...
> > > > There still are *small* tape streamers ;)
> > >
> > > Which fit quite well on the cheap (free) floppy interface,
> >
> > It is _slow_! I have one.. I will replace it with SCSI asap. It is even
> > slower than QIC-02. Actually it is n _times_ slower!
>
> Not to mention that the floppy tapes are way more expensive per megabyte.
> I can get 4GB DAT tapes for about $20, the same capacity on floppy tapes
> would cost quite a bit.
And the DAT streamer is a lot more expensive than the floppy-tape one.
Plus my point - I already have the peripherals I need, I don't need to
spend a lot of money replacing them. My system isn't commercial, I don't
need absolutely the biggest and latest everything. OK, I'd like more disk
space, but on EIDE I can go up to over 20 gig if I want to, and if I need
more than that I may as well upgrade the whole system anyway.
Chris C
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