26 Jan
2001
26 Jan
'01
3:34 p.m.
At 06:00 AM 1/27/01 +0100, Iggy wrote:
Whereas those of us still using SIMMs are left
stranded. I've found that
buying entire machines just for their memory is now cheaper than buying the
SIMMs separately.
This has got to be one of the principles of collecting, complete machines
are cheaper than the parts. When I do this with a VAX I call it "VAX
mining." You get 6 tons of non-working VAX equipment for free and then you
put together working systems out of the parts and sell or give away the
extra pieces. The first two MicroVAX IIs that I bought (non-working/no
drives) had RQD11/E ESDI controllers in them. Replace the drives and voila,
nice systems once again.
--Chuck