[Info-vax] Unix on A DEC Vax?

[Howard S Shubs]

In article <W32OKe9VgARj at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
 koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) wrote:

>    Guess again.  I know a shop which just recently, or is now, retiring
>    a VAX 11/785.  The cost of keeping the 785 was negligible.  It was
>    powered off most of the time, under third party maintenance that
>    was almost never called, and parts were cheap.  It operated as a front 
>    end to a much more expensive system, and getting a replacement to talk
>    to the rest of the system would have been prohibitively expensive.

That's... impressive.  That's like the DECSYSTEM 20 I've mentioned 
seeing around 1995.

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