Dear Santa, I would like a VAX....

From: Antonio Carlini <arcarlini_at_iee.org>
Date: Sat Jan 18 19:33:00 2003

> Unfortunately, this is probably impossible in the short term
> - unless I
> want to buy the MicroVAX 3100 currently on eBay _at_ a fiver.

Didn't see one at a fiver. Saw
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1484&item=23017
94356
which is claimed to be a UV3100-95. Assuming it is, then it's
a darned fast VAX (in VAX terms) and really well worth having.
The DLT looks more like a TZ30 to me (still nice to have) and
it's unusual to have a 2.88MB floppy on a VAX. Might be worth
asking for confirmation that it is a VAX (like a log of
it booting to the >>> prompt or a quote of the part number on
the mainboard).

> But that's not a
> *real* VAX, it's just not big enough... And besides, it hasn't got a
> CD-ROM, which I will need to load OpenVMS.

CDROMs are cheap, even the RRD-compatible ones.

Antonio
 
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Antonio Carlini             arcarlini_at_iee.org
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