heck, are 11/785s extinct?

From: Master of all that Sucks <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Wed Jul 25 18:03:28 2001

Boy do I ever wish I were subscribed 18 months ago. I would have probably
taken the whole lot.

Peace... Sridhar

On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, James Rice wrote:

> About 18 months ago, I was given a Vax 11/780, complete with almost 60
> Dec terminals, Dec laser and dot matrix printers, hubs, connecting
> devices, disks, tapes, manuals, and a couple of MicroVax boxes,
> software, in other words the whole works. Since I only collect micros
> and some Unix workstations, I posted it's availability and the inventory
> of hardware that I could see in a short trip through the computer
> room. The Vax hardware had just come off the DEC maintance contract a
> couple of months before and had just been serviced. After posting to the
> list I only got one response and at the time I was living in an
> apartment and didn't have room to store the system. Finally it was
> dumpstered. The same fate fell to the two PDP11's that were removed
> from service a couple on months later.
>
> James
>
Received on Wed Jul 25 2001 - 18:03:28 BST