Saw on Ebay: VAX Console 380 (Professional 380?)

On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 06:49:23PM -0700, Zane H. Healy wrote: I can appreciate the sentiment, but at one point, historically, a VAX running some variant of BSD was the touchstone of compatibility if you were writing stuff for UNIX (cf. the "All The World's a VAX" syndrome in C programming for a long time). Of course, if you want to run old apps (or games like Larn), any modern UNIXy platform will run the app. I still have a killer app for UNIX on a MASSBUS machine - music played on a TU78. I never got the chance to run the program on our big 11/750 (it ran VMS only, as our departmental mail/word processing/development machine), and our little 11/750 didn't have a MASSBUS card in any of the MASSBUS slots (just a second Unibus and/or an SI9900 controller). I've always wanted to hear that tape drive "sing". -ethan -- Ethan Dicks, A-130-S Current South Pole Weather at 04-Jun-2004 03:20 Z South Pole Station PSC 468 Box 400 Temp -85.3 F (-65.2 C) Windchill -109.1 F (-78.40 C) APO AP 96598 Wind 3.9 kts Grid 078 Barometer 660.7 mb (11364 ft) Ethan.Dicks(a)amanda.spole.gov http://penguincentral.com/penguincentral.html