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Re: 11/780 on e-bay

From Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se>
Newsgroups comp.sys.dec
Subject Re: 11/780 on e-bay
Date 2011-05-02 08:53 -0700
Organization Update Computer Club
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On 2011-05-02 01:51, Hans Vlems wrote:
> On 1 mei, 17:38, "Dave Wade"<dave.g4...@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Given no manuals, no software and its in Sweden starting price is
>> optimistic?
>>
>> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110680894674
>
> There's no realistic price for a VAX 11/780. There's no practical use
> for such a system
> in a commercial environment. There's no support for the 11/780 in VMS
> 7.3 (I forgot what the
> last supported version is).

Just to point out - 7.3 will run fine on a 11/780. Not supported just 
means they never tested it. (Don't think they even had any such machines 
left at Compaq by the time 7.3 came out.)
However, the machine currently discussed only have 2MB of memory, which 
might be way too little...

	Johnny

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11/780 on e-bay "Dave Wade" <dave.g4ugm@gmail.com> - 2011-05-01 16:38 +0100
  Re: 11/780 on e-bay Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2011-05-01 10:39 -0700
  Re: 11/780 on e-bay Hans Vlems <hvlems@freenet.de> - 2011-05-02 01:51 -0700
    Re: 11/780 on e-bay legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) - 2011-05-02 15:30 +0000
    Re: 11/780 on e-bay Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2011-05-02 08:53 -0700
      Re: 11/780 on e-bay vaxorcist <vaxorcist@googlemail.com> - 2011-05-03 06:04 -0700
        Re: 11/780 on e-bay koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) - 2011-05-03 08:16 -0500
  Re: 11/780 on e-bay vaxorcist <vaxorcist@googlemail.com> - 2011-05-02 03:09 -0700
  Re: 11/780 on e-bay drb@ihatespam.msu.edu (Dennis Boone) - 2011-05-02 07:50 -0500
    Re: 11/780 on e-bay "Dave Wade" <dave.g4ugm@gmail.com> - 2011-05-03 19:30 +0100
      Re: 11/780 on e-bay legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) - 2011-05-04 03:25 +0000
        Re: 11/780 on e-bay Hans Vlems <hvlems@freenet.de> - 2011-05-06 07:09 -0700
          Re: 11/780 on e-bay "Robert A. Brooks" <rab@aitchpee.com> - 2011-05-06 11:28 -0400
            Re: 11/780 on e-bay koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) - 2011-05-06 11:52 -0500
            Re: 11/780 on e-bay pechter@pechter.dyndns.org (Bill Pechter) - 2011-05-07 12:42 +0000
          Re: 11/780 on e-bay koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) - 2011-05-06 11:51 -0500
            Re: 11/780 on e-bay pechter@pechter.dyndns.org (Bill Pechter) - 2011-05-07 12:46 +0000
            Re: 11/780 on e-bay Hans Vlems <hvlems@freenet.de> - 2011-05-08 05:08 -0700
              Re: 11/780 on e-bay Chris Scheers <chris@applied-synergy.com> - 2011-05-08 16:38 -0500
  Re: 11/780 on e-bay jjh <jjhudak@gmail.com> - 2011-05-02 17:58 -0700

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