10 Mar
2007
10 Mar
'07
5:05 a.m.
The DEC VS11/VSV11 kind of did the earliest "Vax workstation."
It was a Qbus graphics subsystem with 20 inch monitor which hooked up to a
Unibus interface.
Bill
On 3/10/07, Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw at lug-owl.de> wrote:
On Sat, 2007-03-10 01:21:00 -0500, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com>
wrote:
We (three friends and myself) once brought my VAX 6320 down into a
friend's basement. The box fittet the stairs quite exactly and all
four of us had quite aching bones for a month. OTOH, I don't think
that this box will come /out/ there ever. Maybe except if being cutted
down into pieces...
MfG, JBG
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Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw at lug-owl.de
+49-172-7608481
Signature of: "really soon now": an unspecified period of
time, likly to
the second : be greater than any
reasonable definition
of "soon".
Ethan Dicks wrote:
> > > I think a 11/750 makes a fine single-user VMS "workstation" ;-)
> > Never trust a workstation that couldn't roll over you and smash you
flat?
I almost had an 11/750 land on me, but I was able to coax it out of
the side door of a Chevy Astro mini-Van (alone) without getting
squished or pinched. That was a fun experience.
I once (with the help of a bunch of other people) was attempting to
unload a DECsystem 5810 (a VAX 6000-300, except with MIPS CPUs -- I got
the machine from Dave McGuire the first time I met him, and I still have
it) from a rental truck down the ramp and it started to tip off the side
of the ramp towards me. I wasn't standing at the time. It landed on me
as I was kneeling down. I caught it.