[Info-vax] "funny" thing on the usual auction site...

[Lee Gleason]

>"JF Mezei"  wrote in message 
>news:502edac6$0$45182$c3e8da3$b280bf18 at news.astraweb.com...

>Sorry to break my silence here.

>What is significant here is that those Apple stickers were not
>"marketing" stickers. They were stickers that indicated that this
>Microvax 3100 (Vaxstation is much thinner than what is pictured) was
>owned by Apple Computer Corp. and used internally by Apple employees and
>ran VMS.

>We won't know what Apple used VMS for internally, but we know they used VMS

  It was not unknown for DEC to provide systems to software companies in 
exchange for software they were interested in. Here in Houston, a goodly 
number of years back, DEC gave an 11/23 system running RSX to a software 
outfit that at the time was well known for developing Smalltalk, in exchange 
for copies of their software and some documentation of the internals. I 
personally hoped the software outfit's developers would like RSX enough to 
develop a version of Smalltalk for it, but they didn't bother - said that 
working in RSX was too much like "dealing with the government". Guess the 
parameters for a QIO scared 'em...

  Maybe the VAXstation on Ebay wound up at Apple through a similar deal.
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Lee K. Gleason N5ZMR
Control-G Consultants
lee.gleason at comcast.net