Holy Cow... I guess the repair price this fellow got quoted was truly astronomical! Anyway... if you've got a VAXen of the type he's looking for, and you want to get a good price for it and have it go to a good home to boot (pun intended, of course), get in touch with the original author of the message attached here... -=-=- <snip> -=-=- From: michaXrostock(a)t-online.de (Dr. Michael Storck) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec Subject: Looking for ... Date: 29 Mar 1998 18:11:59 GMT Organization: T-Online Lines: 13 Message-ID: &lt;6fm2tf$su6$1(a)news00.btx.dtag.de&gt; Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sender: 0381685071-0001(a)t-online.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [de] (Win95; I) Path: blushng.jps.net!news.eli.net!uunet!in3.uu.net!nntprelay.mathworks.com!ptdnetP!newsgate.ptd.net!newsfeed00.btx.dtag.de!news.btx.dtag.de!not-for-mail Hi from Rostock, Germany My old DecStation 5000 / 200 got hardware -problems. Having it repaired is rather expensive with digital in germany. As I still have data on two rz 55 / rz 56 disks I am looking for a DecStation 5000 / 240 or 5000 / 260 system 2ndhand, with a sytem 2 user license of ultrix 4.3 or 4.4 I would need only the system box (with hard disk built in ) as my Dec (well rather Sony) 19" monitor is still well and alive ... Shipping from US / CAN via UPS or DHL ... Willing to pay about $ 500 (depending on type of sys and size of hard disk) Mike Storck -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bruce Lane, SysOp, The Dragon's Cave BBS (Fido 1:343/272) kyrrin {at} j<p>s d[o]t n=e=t "...No matter how hard we may wish otherwise, our science can only describe an object, event, or living creature, in our own human terms. It cannot possibly define any of them!..."