Semi-OT: IDE & SATA to USB "dongles" - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

2 Jun 2006

On 6/2/06, Zane H. Healy <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
...
  My DEC PWS 433au is right at about 10 years and gets
continuous use.
 It runs 24x365, and has for the last 6 years.  A lot of people have
 VAXen that they been using for 10+ years (if not 20+), same with
 PDP-11's.  In the DEC world 10+ years isn't so much unusual, as the
 norm.  Some DEC systems have been in continuous use for 30+ years. 
Hear, hear.  The oldest (to me) DEC machine in my posession I got in
1982 (PDP-8/L); it
works, but I don't use it every day.  I do have some stuff from the
late 1970s and
early 1980s that I have every expectation to work on those occasions when I do
fire it up (few times per year).  The stuff from the early 1960s I'm
less confident about, but I'm not terribly worried about the
electronics (just the electrolytic caps).

-ethan