[Info-vax] Multia enterprise client (was Re: VAXstation 4000s available on ebay)

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <kjat7t$g4d$3 at dont-email.me>, David Froble
<davef at tsoft-inc.com> writes: 

> It also came out at a time when VMS systems were other than inexpensive, 
> and some people were hoping to convert it into a cheap VMS system.

Right.

> With some really robust old Alpha systems available rather inexpensively 
> today, I personally see no reason to try to use a Multia.  But you never 
> really know what some people find interesting.

I remember back around 1995 or so when I had a catalogue of ALPHA 
systems.  The ALPHAstation 200/4 100 was selling for about DM 20,000.  
This was much more than I could afford, but even then I decided that the 
Multia wasn't worth the trouble as a cheap VMS machine.  I waited a bit 
then bought an ALPHAstation 255/233 for about £6,000.  Around the same 
time, older VAXes started to become available for free, and a couple of 
years later older ALPHAs.