[rescue] Rescued VAX 4500 question

[Bill Bradford]

On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 07:13:52PM +0200, Stephen D. B. Wolthusen wrote:
> No, sorry. I just stumbled across the list last month in a fit of weakness (my
> basement is full already...) at a Sun-affiliated site and saw mainly material
> dealing with 90ish Unix hardware. Didn't realize there were other old coots
> around. I'm at a research institutions, and mentioning `DEC' to students these
> days draws blank stares, plus my XP1000 is the last VMS system in the entire
> shop. 

Dave McGuire has a number of -8s and -11s; and I have a garage full of mostly
-11 stuff and a couple of VAXen.  Other list members have -11 and VAXen as
well.  The list started out as a primary Sun-hardware-rescue list but now
covers pretty much anything.

> OK, so it doesn't have any applications for me except to keep it operational,
> but much of the same is also true for my -11. I got the -8 for the promise to
> be good to it about ten years ago, including a crate full of spare parts, a
> mint wire-wrap pistol and an ASR-33 that had apparently never been used, kept
> under wraps so well that the ribbon was still usable more than 20 years after
> it'd left the factory. I'm not at all sure that their new control systems will
> putter along for 20 years without a hiccup - or even having to reach into the
> parts bin they apparently acquired when the 8/I was EOL'd. 

Wow, not bad.

Bill

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Bill Bradford     
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Austin, TX