Article 157845 of comp.os.vms: In article <1996Oct27.124232.1003@flying-disk.com>, frisbie@flying-disk.com (Alan Frisbie) writes: > When I checked with DEC's E-Store, EK-ALPSV-TI and EK-VLLXA-TI > yielded "Model Number Invalid". Yeah, but the E store doesn't have half of what Digital sells. You have to go to DEC Direct, get turned down, and then ask them about the special place where all the weird part numbers are kept. As I remember, they can get you anything you want, but the delay could be significant and there was a $50 minimum order. This is the place that you order weird things like those little washers in 3100 systems that you need to hold the disk drives down. > However, I am happy to have that one. > How did you manage to find out the part number? What magic > source of information do you have? How can ordinary customers > get these number? How did you get the model numbers for manuals > that the E-Store claims are not valid? In the Alpha 1000 manual and in the 250 (and 255) manuals that I have, they gave me the title and part number for the technical manual. So if you have one of the CPUs, you can look in the -UI part number and it will give you the -TI part number. You can also infer the Tech Manual by adding "-TI" to the user's guide; ever since Pro 350/380 days, this has been a reliable way to get the tech manuals for anything short of the 8000-class behemoths. In any case, none of this detracts from your original point: Digital Documentation catalog, last published in the early 1980s, needs to get recreated so that lunks like us can get the manuals we need! jms Joel M Snyder, 1404 East Lind Road, Tucson, AZ, 85719 Phone: +1 520 324 0494 (voice) +1 520 324 0495 (FAX) jms@Opus1.COM http://www.opus1.com/jms Opus One