brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) (06/30/91)
I personally abhor installing from a TK50, but ..
I'm going to call our Dec rep tomorrow to order 2 DecStation 3100's;
at the same time, I want to ask him to add a Dec CD-Rom on it, for
installs. Only snag is, I don't know if I'll be able to sell our dept
head on it, as I did the systems themselves. (I haven't got a
DecDirect here, so I can't check the price right now.) Anyway, are
there any rumors of Dec dropping tape distributions, as Sun has?
That'd clinch the argument. :-)
Thanks for any ideas..
Brendan
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In article <X_+AT8_@cs.widener.edu> brendan@cs.widener.edu (Brendan Kehoe) writes: > I personally abhor installing from a TK50, but .. > > I'm going to call our Dec rep tomorrow to order 2 DecStation 3100's; > at the same time, I want to ask him to add a Dec CD-Rom on it, for > installs. Only snag is, I don't know if I'll be able to sell our dept > head on it, as I did the systems themselves. (I haven't got a > DecDirect here, so I can't check the price right now.) Anyway, are > there any rumors of Dec dropping tape distributions, as Sun has? > That'd clinch the argument. :-) I got some mail on a special DEC CDROM+Ultrix Distribution deal. Sounded like just the ticket to me. I don't know if DEC is ever going to drop TK50 distribution, they've sold too many of the wreteched things and don't seem much interseted in *affordable* CDROM drives for anything except workstations, let alone any of the tradational VAXEN they still support. I'd really like to see the TK50 go, at least with 6250BPI 9-track tape distributions you could see why it was taking forever to suck in the stuff. 8-) -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing: domain: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com Commodore, Engineering Department phone: 215-431-9349 (only by moonlite)