[Info-vax] What does VMS get used for, these days?

[chris]

On 10/17/22 11:32, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
> On Mon, 2022-10-17 at 10:59 +0100, chris wrote:
>>
>> I remember the dec direct catalog, which had a an entry for 3 x RA60
>> drives in a short rack. The price ?: That will be 66,000 uk pounds
>> please sir. A bit steep for ~600 Mb storage total, even for dec...
> 
> Still reassuring to know one kilogram of gold is about £50k. The RA60
> cabinet was 168 kilograms.

Had a single RA60 in the lab here for a while, Extremely heavy, just
managed to lift it and sounded like a gas turbine spinning up. Power
consumption around 400 watts for a single drive, 205Mb packs. Still
have packs, but no way to read them anymore...

Chris