25 Jul
2001
25 Jul
'01
11:03 a.m.
Boy do I ever wish I were subscribed 18 months ago. I would have probably
taken the whole lot.
Peace... Sridhar
On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, James Rice wrote:
About 18 months ago, I was given a Vax 11/780,
complete with almost 60
Dec terminals, Dec laser and dot matrix printers, hubs, connecting
devices, disks, tapes, manuals, and a couple of MicroVax boxes,
software, in other words the whole works. Since I only collect micros
and some Unix workstations, I posted it's availability and the inventory
of hardware that I could see in a short trip through the computer
room. The Vax hardware had just come off the DEC maintance contract a
couple of months before and had just been serviced. After posting to the
list I only got one response and at the time I was living in an
apartment and didn't have room to store the system. Finally it was
dumpstered. The same fate fell to the two PDP11's that were removed
from service a couple on months later.
James