Saw on Ebay: VAX Console 380 (Professional 380?)

dittman(a)dittman.net (Eric Dittman) writes: But you could have a dual-boot system, which allows you to issue commands like # wall System rebooting to VMS in ten minutes. Please adjust your files accordingly. ^d I used to run an turist vax system on orphaned hw in a uni machine room; I and the other sysadmin discussed (but never got round to) having it alternate days between OS', just to keep our users on their toes. One of the disks (an RA80 or 81) eventually had the central bearing go; the noise was so awful that it was a couple of days before anyone would go into that machine room to spin the sucker down. I still have one of the platters; they have a neat circle about half an inch wide in the middle of the media that is scoured down to the aluminum. --akb, still waiting for the reinvention of the versioning file system and the standardized stacking error facility