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Re: DECstation 3100 info.

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From: Seenu Banda
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1989 21:53
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In article <414@laic.UUCP>, darin@nova.laic.uucp (Darin Johnson) writes:

> We were beta testing some of the workstations (and still are to some
> .. 
> have one for the 3100.  They also include a small disk hidden in the box
                                    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> that can be used to boot the machine, with NFS used for everything else
> (we haven't used it, we boot it off a VMS machine - gack).  I think this


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? 

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From: seenu@isieng.UUCP (Seenu Banda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.arch
Subject: Re: DECstation 3100 info.
Keywords: 3100, Advantedge 2000
Message-ID: <986@isieng.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jan 89 21:53:24 GMT
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Organization: Integrated Solutions, Inc., San Jose, CA
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