gauging interest in VAX 6000-530

From: Mike Cheponis <mac_at_Wireless.Com>
Date: Mon Oct 25 01:35:33 1999

On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote:

>Mike Cheponis once stated:
>>
>>>I'd rather have a nice VAX than a modern PC,
>>
>>My PCs are damn reliable; are you buying junk? They are -waaaaaaaaaaay- more


> At one company I did some consulting work for they had a rather large

> Another story relates how they shut the machine down to reboot it into

> THAT was a reliable machine, although for the life of me I'm blanking on
>the type of computer (I want to say Sequent (sp?)).

> -spc (So far, the longest I've seen a PC go is 320 days)

These are great stories, thanks for telling them.

Really, isn't that they way we want computers to behave? It's almost as
if they're alive!

very best -Mike
Received on Mon Oct 25 1999 - 01:35:33 BST