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Re: DECstation 3100 info.

#5124
From: John Hascall
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1989 15:29
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In article <986@isieng.UUCP> seenu@isieng.UUCP (Seenu Banda) writes:
>In article <414@laic.UUCP>, darin@nova.laic.uucp (Darin Johnson) writes:
 
>> have one for the 3100.  They also include a small disk hidden in the box
>                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>This is really interesting. This is the first time I heard about a hidden
>disk in the 3100. Does anybody know more about this disk? How small (or
>big) is it? 10MB? 

    Is there really a hidden disk?  Or is this person just talking
    about the RZ22 and RZ23 which are 3.5" half height SCSI drives
    (52 and 104 Mbytes respectively) [HHHW half-height half-width? :-) ]
    which are indeed very small.

    John Hascall
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From: hascall@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.arch
Subject: Re: DECstation 3100 info.
Keywords: 3100, "hidden disk"
Message-ID: <703@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 19 Jan 89 15:29:02 GMT
References: <979@isieng.UUCP> <414@laic.UUCP> <986@isieng.UUCP>
Reply-To: hascall@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall)
Organization: Iowa State U. Computer Science Department, Ames, IA
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