22 Mar
2000
22 Mar
'00
2:25 p.m.
On Wed, 22 Mar 2000, Geoff Roberts wrote:
I got it through someone from this list- it was the subject of the big
VAX vs. 486 flamewar last year. It was at a hospital office. It was shut
off late last year and officially retired in January. Unfortunately, the
disks are still in use on its replacement, so all I picked up was the CPU
(one cabinet, refrigerator-sized). I've been going over it examining it
to see what makes it tick and learning about it (DEC stuff is for whatever
reason sort-of rare around here; I'm not sure if it's all still in service
or if it was unpopular in the first place.) Eventually I'll find disks
for it- I'm a firm believer in the magnet principle. :-)
Richard Schauer
rws(a)enteract.com
Yeah, well my
VAX 6000-530 has twice that- 512 MB! Top that! :-)
ROFL. I thought I was the only one that kept a pet one of these. Good
on ya!
Where'd you score that one & what's the rest of the setup?