[Info-vax] Hopelessly Pathetic Hardware Parts

[Ken Fairfield]

On Friday, August 24, 2012 12:10:04 PM UTC-7, ChrisQ wrote:
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> Dunno if that would be possible, unless you run X over the network, but
> there was an early vaxstation 8000 series, which, iirc, used an E&S bi
> bus graphics card. I lusted after one of those, even at 1 vups, but they
> must have been as rare as rocking horse whatsit. 

I actually saw one of those, a VAXstation 8000, at SRI (Stanford 
Research International) in the early '80s at their office in Menlo 
Park, CA.  You say 1 vup which corresponds with my memory that it 
was a "VAX 11/780 workstation" (the guy showing us said).

Which also tweaks old memories: weren't SRI the originators of Multinet?
I know they were doing a lot of networking research at the time.

    -Ken