free VAX 4000 VLC

On 21 October 2013 04:18, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote: Gosh. My saved searches have only ever turned up 1 hopeful company who regularly have been relisting the same graphics card, for an over-inflated price (ISTM), for a couple of years now. Well, I'm interested in a VAX*station* because I wanted to run DECwindows on it, and the VLC seems to offer the best balance of price:performance. I bought a 3100 model 38 some years ago, with monitor, mouse, keyboard etc., for the princely sum of ?0.99 -- about US$1.60 -- but sadly, the vendor kept the hard disk *and the mounting bracket and cables*. To replace them, the cheapest price I've found was about ?70... & my budget is minute. (I chose it because I ran a small group of those as servers in my days in the City of London in the early 1990s.) I used to have a MicroVAX 3100 (-something) given to me by a friend -- and list-lurker -- about 12y ago, but sadly, I returned it to him in order for him to give me a better-specced one, and just then, he sadly got divorced and lost his whole DEC collection. Very sad. A few years ago, I found that VMS on my tech CV was attracting a lot of attention and a few interviews, when my Windows/Mac/Linux skills seem to be of little interest to anyone any more. So my plan was to brush up on my not-used-since-the-mid-1990s VAX skills with a VAXstation, then see if I could get some VAX sysadmin work. However, VMS isn't attracting any interest any longer, AFAICS, and I am gradually disposing of my collection, so I guess it's probably not going to happen now, sadly... -- Liam Proven ? Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ? GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lproven at hotmail.com ? Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 ? Cell: +44 7939-087884