3 Nov
2011
3 Nov
'11
7:01 p.m.
I would think they would would re-release them at that price point. I
bet that box could be recreated today for very little. HP could use the
money.
It's only like 20mhz faster then the 4000 which sells for $75 on ebay.
Even if you had a VAX app you couldn't port for some odd reason the
premium seems ridiculous. If you are waiting on an ancient VAX to do
real work for you you obviously don't care about the speed of execution.
It will be like 9.5 hours instead of 10 to finish your job.
I hate thinking anything in the defense department is running on a
vaxstation 4000 still but, it's the government after all.
On 11/3/2011 6:40 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
Ohhhhh, a 4000-96. They always go for VERY serious cash.
First of all, they're quite fast for being so small; often the
fastest way to run VAX binaries without pulling gobs of electricity.
Second, a lot of gov't agencies use them for some very specific
software that only runs on VAXen. (the US Gov't is FULL of VAXen,
specifically in defense sector)
-Dave