this is a crime - help ban vaxbars!

I'm pretty sure that the original vaxbar conversion took place around 1990 or so. It's been going on for a while, and if this is indeed the original vaxbar then perhaps it has some value as being the original conversion. You can rail about preservation all you want, but 11/780's were cranked out by the hundreds of thousands and they are not the easiest system to keep operational (as compared to a similarly-powerful desktop Microvax). It's akin to getting a scrapyard Model T (to choose a car that was as commonly produced as the 11/780) and turning it into a hot rod with few original components other than a heavily modified frame. Yeah, the Model T certainly has collector value, but earlier it had value as common and easily found! Tim.