20 May
2001
20 May
'01
2:06 a.m.
Jim Strickland wrote:
> 2. 11/780s aren't
> especially uncommon. It WOULD be a tragedy if one of the wierd vaxen got made
> into a bar - a 9000, for example. But the 11/780 sold zillions - it launched
> the 32 bit minicomputer universe.
Agreed...
Yes, but nevertheless they're hard to find these days. I bet there's about
no IT department that still runs one. Most of them are probably already
scrapped and some of them may reside in warehouses with those trade-used-
parts-for-twice-the-price dealerships. Since there's no demand of the kind
who would pay those high prices anymore, the last guard will probably see
the scrapyard in masses (with far less oportunity for someone to rescue
them.)
Considering they've got less processing power than a '386'
they're not going to be found in any IS department. Almost all of the
ones I knew in IS -- (and I worked at DEC and installed a ton of them)
were upgraded to 11/785's in the mid to late 80's and in the 90's
they were long since scrapped out.
In short, *because* the 11/780 was both so popular and
beautiful, it is a
tragedy for each one that goes.
sniff,
-Gunther
I love 11/780's but I can't see them being run at home. The
cost/benefit ratio isn't right. You can run a full cluster of
Microvax systems for a lot less than 1 11/780 and you can blow the doors
off the older machine with them.jj
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Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care
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