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From: wilsenac@handel.mpr.ca (Henry Wilsenack)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: 16Mbyte for VS2000
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Date: 9 Mar 90 05:34:11 GMT
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In article <90061.132705STRCC@CUNYVM.BITNET> @CUNYVM (Stuart Cohnen) writes:
>A Clearpoint salesperson is trying to sell me a 16mbyte memory board
>for my VS2000(s).  Anyone with any experience with one of these beasts?
>I'm skeptical since the documentation for the VS2000 seems to say the max
>is 14 Mbytes (2 Megs on the mother board and 12 on the Daughter board)
>Clearpoint sells this 16Mbyte daughter board, which shuts down the
>2Mbyte on the mother board, allowing the system to see 16Mbytes.
>Price: at GSA schedule $2100! Can't beat that!

  We have two such 16MB Clearpoint memory boards for our 2 VAXstation 2000
workstations.  We are very satisfied both with the product and with 
Clearpoint.  The board is easy to install.  It comes with a small booklet
describing how.  It is a true 16MB memory board.  It fits in place of the
2MB/4MB daugther board and simply over-laps with the existing 2MB on the 
motherboard.   
 
  Clearpoint has also been very helpful.  There support hot-line has been
quick and knowledgable about the VAXstation and their Clearpoint products.
We have had to call them on 2 occassions.  You see depending upon what 
revision the VAXstation 2000 motherboard is, you may have to install/strap
the Clearpoint 16MB board differently.  The manual attempts to describe as
many situations as possible, but we encounted a VS2000 that had a weird
revision level.  We called the hotline, and they quickly gave us the 
instructions for this particular revision.
 
  You definitely cannot beat the price.  Go for it!  Unfortunately we
bought out Clearpoint 16MB memory boards about 1 1/2 years ago, so we
paid ~$10K cdn (~$8K US).  Nevertheless, 16MB definitely gives the old
VAXstation 2000 a bit more spunk, and makes the darn thing almost useful!!
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