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

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Phillip Helbig---undress to reply <helbig at astro.multiclothesvax.de> wrote:
> 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 saw one two days ago. (Not running, though.)
 
> 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.)  

The 11/780 is a little shorter, but a lot wider than the usual
refrigerator. I don't think it would fit in the usual large
car or minivan, but I suppose in a pickup truck.

> 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!

-- glen