or disk/tape drives that work with it... I mean... I
like VMS and I've been
using it for 20 years, but unless I want to plug in a particular peripheral,
I'd rather run a desk-top-sized machine than a rack, just for power/heat
reasons (for the record, I use the 8300 because I have a stack of VAXBI
For an alternative viewpoint, the only VAXen I'd want to run at home are
the 11/730 and the 11/780 family (11/780, 11/782, 11/785). The reason is
those are the only ones I can actually understand the internals of --
they're built from standard chips (non-protected PALs in the 11/730,
admittedly), rather than custom gate arrays or worse).
-tony