[Info-vax] Hopelessly Pathetic Hardware Parts

[David Froble]

Ken Fairfield wrote:
> On Friday, August 24, 2012 12:10:04 PM UTC-7, ChrisQ wrote:
> [...]
>> 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

The VAXstation 8000 was basically a VAX 8200 with graphics