> Jim Strickland wrote:
> > 2. 11/780s aren't
> > especially uncommon. It WOULD be a tragedy if one of the wierd vaxen got made
> > into a bar - a 9000, for example. But the 11/780 sold zillions - it launched
> > the 32 bit minicomputer universe.
Agreed...
>
> Yes, but nevertheless they're hard to find these days. I bet there's about
> no IT department that still runs one. Most of them are probably already
> scrapped and some of them may reside in warehouses with those trade-used-
> parts-for-twice-the-price dealerships. Since there's no demand of the kind
> who would pay those high prices anymore, the last guard will probably see
> the scrapyard in masses (with far less oportunity for someone to rescue
> them.)
Considering they've got less processing power than a '386'
they're not going to be found in any IS department. Almost all of the
ones I knew in IS -- (and I worked at DEC and installed a ton of them)
were upgraded to 11/785's in the mid to late 80's and in the 90's
they were long since scrapped out.
> In short, *because* the 11/780 was both so popular and beautiful, it is a
> tragedy for each one that goes.
> sniff,
> -Gunther
I love 11/780's but I can't see them being run at home. The
cost/benefit ratio isn't right. You can run a full cluster of
Microvax systems for a lot less than 1 11/780 and you can blow the doors
off the older machine with them.jj
> --
> Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow_at_regenstrief.org
> Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care
> Adjunct Assistent Professor Indiana University School of Medicine
> tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org
>
>
Bill
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