[Info-vax] Hopelessly Pathetic Hardware Parts

[Ken Fairfield]

On Friday, August 24, 2012 2:03:12 PM UTC-7, David Froble wrote:
> Ken Fairfield wrote:
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> > On Friday, August 24, 2012 12:10:04 PM UTC-7, ChrisQ wrote:
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> > [...]
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> >> Dunno if that would be possible, unless you run X over the network, but
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> >> there was an early vaxstation 8000 series, which, iirc, used an E&S bi
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> >> bus graphics card. I lusted after one of those, even at 1 vups, but they
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> >> must have been as rare as rocking horse whatsit. 
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> > I actually saw one of those, a VAXstation 8000, at SRI (Stanford 
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> > Research International) in the early '80s at their office in Menlo 
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> > Park, CA.  You say 1 vup which corresponds with my memory that it 
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> > was a "VAX 11/780 workstation" (the guy showing us said).
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> > Which also tweaks old memories: weren't SRI the originators of Multinet?
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> > I know they were doing a lot of networking research at the time.
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> >     -Ken
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> The VAXstation 8000 was basically a VAX 8200 with graphics

Well that makes sense, then, calling it an "8000".  The 80s
were a long time ago...  :-) :-)

    -Ken