2 Jan
2022
2 Jan
'22
4:20 p.m.
On 1/2/2022 6:21 PM, Mark J. Blair via cctalk wrote:
I am seriously lusting after that VAX-11/780 system on
eBay
I keep thinking about it, but no. The 780 was neat from a historical
perspective, and the 785 at UMBC (UMBC5) ran Ultrix (and was on the
ARPANET, not the crappy Bitnet the 8600's were on) but the 780 was
really slow. I have a Microvax II here that would equal it CPU
speed-wise, and the running of the main memory on the SBI was cool for
the 782 option but was pretty slow.
Now a Vax 8600 or 8650.... That would be interesting. Partially due to
the Jupiter angle, partially because it was the fastest MASSBUS system
with true pdp11 compatibility.