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| Date | 2022-01-25 21:13 -0800 |
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| Subject | Re: VAX 11/780 system for sale |
| From | Louis Williams <exactlyhowpublishing@gmail.com> |
Of course he knows he's responding to a post over thirty years old.; so am I. I had a DEC VAX 11/780 I acquired as a hobbyist, and now in retirement decades later, I would give my eye-teeth to get one now. I picked that old machine up thirty-plus years ago (longer maybe) and wish I would have kept it back in the barn to play with. I didn't know what to do with it then, and now, after decades of programing, I would love to. Yeah, it weights a ton, consumes a lot of juice, but hey, stuff is so crazy now it would be a ton of fun to play with those 200lb 20Mb drives, multiple terminals and console. I was new then, after my VIC and Tandy I picked up a couple of IBM PCs and foolishly used the VAX console to stick my new PCs on. Now my systems and servers are absolutely crazy, but I would sure like to peek and poke a bit on these older systems. Who remembers pre-PC PASCAL? Anybody got one rotting in their barn? On Thursday, May 6, 2021 at 3:52:28 PM UTC-7, Scott Dorsey wrote: > Rich Alderson <ne...@alderson.users.panix.com> wrote: > >Maggie Ambrose <maggie....@gmail.com> writes: > > > >> On Tuesday, June 15, 1993 at 2:36:30 PM UTC-4, Mark Bartelt wrote: > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > > >Maggie, > > > >Do you realize that you responded to a post which is almost 30 years old? > > > Thirty years ago I could have given you an 11/780. It has since gone to > the recyclers. > --scott > -- > "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."
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Re: VAX 11/780 system for sale Maggie Ambrose <maggie.ambrose1@gmail.com> - 2021-05-06 10:52 -0700
Re: VAX 11/780 system for sale Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> - 2021-05-06 18:22 -0400
Re: VAX 11/780 system for sale kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2021-05-06 22:52 +0000
Re: VAX 11/780 system for sale Louis Williams <exactlyhowpublishing@gmail.com> - 2022-01-25 21:13 -0800
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