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

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Mon Jan 20 15:03:00 2003

On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Witchy wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cctech-admin_at_classiccmp.org [mailto:cctech-admin_at_classiccmp.org]On
> > Behalf Of Antonio Carlini
> > Sent: 19 January 2003 18:46
> > To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
> > Subject: RE: Dear Santa, I would like a VAX....
> >
> > >Frankly, the 8800 is too big, but that is too small...
> >
> > Then I guess you need to aim for one of the VAX 4000
> > series, but shipping on those will be pretty
> > expensive.
>
> You're not kidding - not so long back a local college I do work for decided
> to toss their 4000-500 plus RRD42 and TLZ06; fortunately I was there at the
> time with a suitably sized estate car (station wagon for our US readers) so

Whatever happened to "shooting brake"?
                                                - don

> 2 of us managed to lift it into the back. When I got home I had to
> completely strip it down in situ just to lift the bits out on my own and get
> it in the house. In my reseller days the 4000 series were delivered on a
> pallet with extra ramps to allow you to wheel the machine down to ground
> level and now I know why :)
>
> Spent a happy couple of hours or so tonight getting my Alpha 3000-400 and
> uVAX 3100-90 going again after a few months in storage, and I wish we could
> afford the power to have 2 webservers going at the same time! Since we moved
> into this house we've doubled our power requirements just for heating and
> lighting; 3 machines going at the same time hasn't helped, so an extra VAX
> sized load on things *definitely* won't help :)
>
> cheers
>
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>
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