Equipment Available (really VAX 8600)

On Thu, 22 Jan 2015, Jay West wrote: ... ... ... Coinicidently, my employer purchased a VAX 8600 (running VMS) and a VAX-11/785 running Ultrix in 1985 and I was reading the tender for its purchase last week. In 1985 an educational institution could get a VAX 8600, VAX/VMS 4.7, umpteen layered products, and a three years hardware/software support agreement for CDN$1,034,000.00 and a VAX-11/785 with Ultrix and layered products for around $400,000.00. The purchase All-In-One was $35,000.00!!! Coo Lummey! Four years later the 8600 (now an 8650) was replaced by a VAX 8820 for an additional $1.2 million. The VAX 8820 ran a MicroVAX II as its boot/management console but I cannot remember what did that job for the 8600. Was it a MicroVAX II? If so, then anybody wishing to haul away the 8600 will also want the MicroVAX II... -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Unix System Administrator : "Anybody can be a father Athabasca University : but you have to earn Athabasca, Alberta Canada : the title of 'daddy'" ** richardlo at admin.athabascau.ca ** : - Lynn Johnston