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)

The pages I uploaded were generated from data I amassed over a few decades. I found early on that there was conflicting information flying around so I decided that if I kept track of each the source of each piece of info then that would help to iron out the inconsistencies. It turns out that even the technical manuals can be wrong (things change and new manuals or documents don't necessarily get updated!) but overall it helped with deciding which piece of info to believe (Technical manual trumps Processor Handbook, for example). In this specific case I can't quite work out why the code I have that turns data into a wiki page happened to include the reference in the first place since nothing references it anyway! :-) Antonioc (talk) 23:40, 30 October 2024 (CET)

You will notice that we have a whole Category:DEC Documentation Errors! Jnc (talk) 01:47, 31 October 2024 (CET)