Talk:MicroVAX 3100 Model 88

Reference with no target

There is a reference "[1] Customer Update. Volume 8 Issue 1B. 1st February 1997." here with no target. I think that should be fixed. Vaxorcist (talk) 14:48, 21 October 2024‎

I have no idea where to find that; that title is fairly generic, and might apply to just about any computer line. I did a Web search, but it didn't turn anything up. We'd probably have to contact Antonioc and get a more exact title.

The good news is that my search did find some other Model 88 documentation; I will add that. Jnc (talk) 18:01, 21 October 2024 (CEST)

The "Rackmount MicroVAX 3100 and VAX 4000 Servers" sales brochure (now linked - it's an official document from Digital Europe) looks like it probably contains much the same information as would have been in the "Customer Update". Jnc (talk) 18:30, 21 October 2024 (CEST)

(This is the first time I've written to a Talk page, so apologies if I mess up :-))

The document is a "Digital Customer Update"; here's a link to a different one: Digital's Customer Update - September 6, 1991.

This particular one seems to be one that I only have (or had) available in paper form, hence no link.

I did slurp up all the electronic ones I could find on the net (about 100 of them), but the latest electronic one is from mid-1996. Antonioc (talk) 11:24, 30 October 2024 (CET)

Thanks for the follow-up! (The formatting was fine.)

Although we're not as anal about sourcing things as Wikipedia is (maybe we should be, now that I think about it; people do make mistakes, and trawling though several large document to verify something that might be erroneous is probably non-optimal; careful souring has been a hallmark of scholarship for generations, for that exact reason), it's not a problem that we don't have the paper one you used, because the "Rackmount MicroVAX 3100 and VAX 4000 Servers" sales brochure" which I found seems to have all the same data. Jnc (talk) 12:35, 30 October 2024 (CET)