[Info-vax] Don't worry, HP's project Moonshot will save us

[Phillip Helbig---undress to reply]

In article <nospam-2A551E.16341610042013 at news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture
<nospam at sture.ch> writes: 

> >     (Those who recognize the term probably all have grey hair.)

Well, the beard is turning grey.

> Yep.  I wonder if Phillip has seen an 11/780?

I had one, or something similar, in my car once.  Someone offered to 
give away some hardware (I was interested in terminals) and said he 
would rather have one person take it all.  I figured I could pass on 
anything I didn't need, but was surprised by this beast.  It was a 
refrigerator-size rack, either an early VAX or a PDP.  (Come to think of 
it, probably the latter; perhaps one can find my old posts on this.)  I 
had 12 offers to take it within 24 hours.  I had a 1994 Polo "estate", 
i.e. the one with two doors but the long windows in the back, 
essentially a 2-door estate.  With the front seats pushed all the way to 
the front and the rear hatch open, it just fit.  It also included 
software on 10-inch floppies.

As to the chap who took it---now THAT'S a collector!