Tim,
try a MicroVAX first, to give her time to get used to it... ;-)
> I'd dearly love a Vax (first 'real' computer I used, don't know which
> model 'cos I only saw the serial terminal,) but fear my wife would
> kill me if I tried to get one in the flat :-).
A MicroVAX II in a BA23 box uses about the same space and power as a
tower PC, so this is probably a good "soft drug" to start with. You may
then try to add a cabinet with RA8x disks to see how far you can go...
;-)
> (My serial console is a 1989 Psion MC400 mobile computer.)
These things also have a good chance of being classics some day. My 3a
is still around, and I am so happy with my current 3mx that I'd be
willing to sell the 5mxPro. I even have my own VT320 emulation that can
either go out on the serial line or mix and match with the IP stack from
PsiWin to Telnet wherever you want to go today. Still off topic here,
however.
My specialty - to provide the general answer nobody was waiting for ;-)
- is PDP-11 (several Qbus and UNIBUS systems ready to run again "real
soon now"), with a certain tendency to VAX stuff. I hope to have a
VAX4000 soon to be friend (clustered) with the VAXstation3100. You might
say "David Cutler and DEC operating systems" because I consider even
Windoze Notorious Technology more of a Mickeysoft system wannabe rather
than a David Cutler operating system.
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Andreas Freiherr
Vishay Semiconductor GmbH, Heilbronn, Germany
http://www.vishay.com
Received on Wed Feb 06 2002 - 08:12:45 GMT