[rescue] VAX systems

[Sheldon T. Hall]

 ghub005 writes ...
>
> One of my corporate clients is moving to a new building and they've asked
> me to clear out their sub-basement. The sub-basement is crammed with
> many older HP 9000, SGI, RS/6000, and Sun machines. However there are
> also 16 VAX systems tucked away in there.
>
> No-one knows why all of this equipment was kept, but the feeling
> is that the
> data centre manager didn't want to see anything get unnecessarily thrown
> away (god bless him). So as it got decommissioned over the years,
> it was all put into storage under the building.
>
> The basic specs I've been given are as follow:
>
> VAX 8400. 2GB. 2 processors. 670GB of disk.
> VAX 4000. 384MB. 1 processor. 114GB of disk
> VAX 7000. 1GB. 4 processors.
> VAX 7000. 4GB. 5 processors.
> VAX 4000. 40MB. 1 processor.
> VAX 4000. 64MB. 1 processor.
> VAX 4000. 48MB. 1 processor.
> VAX 4000-500. 48MB. 1 processor. 18.2GB of disk.
> VAX 4000. 48MB. 1 processor.
> VAX 6000. 320MB. 1 processor. 95.1GB
> VAX 6000. 576MB. 1 processor. 95.1GB of disk.
> VAX 6000. 576MB. 2 processors.
> VAX 4000-500. 64MB. 1 processor. 4.1GB of disk.
> VAX 4000-500. 64MB. 1 processor.
> VAX 4000-500. 64MB. 1 processor.
> VAX 4000-500. 64MB. 1 processor.

Holy cow.

> I've been asked to dispose of this equipment (it is all located
> in New Zealand).

Pardon a Yank's lack of knowledge about NZ ... but how many VAXes does the
average NewZealander own?

-Shel