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

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <kk4ghs$dgk$1 at online.de>,
	helbig at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---undress to reply) writes:
> 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.

I amy be mistaken. but I seriously dowbt that an 11/780 would fit in
a Polo.  The last one I saw would have been a challenge in the back
of my Silverado.  :-)

And what is a 10" floppy?  The biggest I ever saw were 8".  (Still got
some.  Even some still in the box and shrink-wrapped.  :-)

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

People here will probably remember that when I was at the University I
used to have not only PDP-11/44's but also some rather large VAXen.
Bigger than your average fridge. Two of them went to collectors and,
sadly, one went to the landfill.  Oh yeah, all my 11/44's went to
other collectors, as is most of the rest of my stuff before too long.
It is rapidly reaching the point where I will be spending my time on
the golf course and no longer in a computer room.

bill

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