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

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Thu Apr 11 13:06:59 EDT 2013


On 2013-04-11 18:39, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> In article <nospam-95CC96.08483411042013 at news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture
> <nospam at sture.ch> writes:
>
>> While Polos were surprisingly capacious I don't think a full size 11/780
>> would fit in one.  A PDP seems more likely.
>>
>> According to
>>
>> http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/mainframe-computers/7/182/736
>>
>> "Dimensions
>> overall: 60 in x 48 in x 30 in"
>
> Sounds about right.  Was there some model of PDP which was very similar
> to a VAX?  11/750?  11/730?

Since I think we have already established than VAXen came in all kind of 
sizes, and so did PDP-11s, the answer is obviously "yes". :-)

Now, are you interested in similarities in size to some specific VAX model?

	Johnny




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