harry@uw-atm.UUCP (Harry Edmon) (04/21/87)
I am planning to purchase a Vaxstation GPX running (shudder) VMS. I also need approx. 400 megabytes of disk and a 1600/6250 tape drive. The only option I get from DEC is to purchase and addtional Microvax and BA123 cabinet for the disk and tape and cluster it with a diskless GPX. Are there any other options, either from DEC or from a third party vendor? -- Harry Edmon UUCP: geops!uw-atm!harry%june.cs.washington.edu or (206) 543-0547 uw-beaver!geops!uw-atm!harry Department of Atmospheric Sciences BITNET: 24440@UWACDC University of Washington
cetron@utah-cs.UUCP (Edward J Cetron) (04/22/87)
I was recently examining alternatives for a similar system and came up with the following: world box mvII gpx with tk50 (to get diags and distributions) fujitsu eagle (NOT super eagle) disk caching controller (can't remember right off the vendor will look it up if necessary) cipher tape drive 800/1600/6250 emulating a ts11 spectra-logic controller extra cabinet. AND BEFORE ANY FLAMES ABOUT FCC REGS, yes this above system will NOT meet them but: a) Many, many universities are exempt b) the above stuff in OUR case was in an fcc 'approved' computer room, not out in the open. -ed cetron cetron@cs.utah.edu cetron@utahcca.bitnet