VAX 9440

Zane Healy healyzh at avanthar.com
Thu Nov 8 13:01:59 CST 2018


Outstanding, glad to hear these were saved.

Zane



> On Nov 8, 2018, at 1:09 AM, Paul Anderson via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Evan,
> 
> Beautiful catch!  Congrats to everyone.
> 
> Paul
> 
> On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 12:09 AM Evan Koblentz via cctalk <
> cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
>> The VCF museum took delivery of a VAX 9440 today.
>> 
>> It arrived in two 28-foot trailers. Here's our forklift driver beginning
>> to unload the first truck:
>> 
>> 
>> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E-Q5xrsYXyjrZEZh92xIBhlStvvNUcRV/view?usp=sharing
>> 
>> Here's a teaser picture of the main cabinet:
>> 
>> 
>> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bEpSMzBEeOvuDnzPQ9Npc7iYmDhjZq8c/view?usp=sharing
>> 
>> The full system is 30-40 feet long when it's all set up! It is in
>> pristine condition and was in service at a defense contractor until a
>> couple of months ago.
>> 
>> Rumor has it that we arranged for another one to land in Dave McGuire's
>> Large Scale Systems Museum collection, and a third to be with Bob
>> Roswell's System Source collection. :)  Perhaps they'll post updates too!
>> 



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