gauging interest in VAX 6000-530

Mike, Oh come on, since when has quantity been any measure of QUALITY? The black death was rather popular in the middle ages too you know.... There is one major reason that the PC is so popular, despite being such a lousy, unreliable system (and before you harp on again about how reliable YOUR PC is try supporting a site with 400+ PCs on it. You'll soon change your opinion of the reliability of these machines). Remember the old adage from the '70s and early '80s "Nobody was ever fired for buying IBM", that's why PCs are so popular today....they made it into countless companies around the world and thus filtered down into the homes of the workers when they wanted their own machines (usually to run software they'd swapped with their colleagues at work). The expandability factor helped a lot too, but if not for the PC's popularity in the workplace it would've gone the same way as the Apple ][, S100 based machines etc. TTFN - Pete. -- Hardware & Software Engineer. Sound Engineer. Collector of Arcade Machines, Games Consoles & Obsolete Computers (esp DEC) peter.pachla(a)wintermute.org.uk | peter.pachla(a)vectrex.freeserve.co.uk | peter.pachla(a)virgin.net | peter.pachla(a)wintermute.free-online.co.uk | www.wintermute.free-online.co.uk --