One of my most fondly treasured memories was when DEC built a factory about 3 miles from where I stay. Just before it opened, my mate, who had landed a job there, sweet-talked security into letting me visit the factory late one night, and one of the many items I lovingly fondled was an early hush-hush pre-release microVAX. What a night that was. Hot stuff, as you say. Very hot. My friend's job consisted of long hours sitting with his feet on a desk, soak testing new kit. Exciting stuff. Eventually had lots of friends who worked in that factory, now sadly long gone, as is DEC I think.
Marcus On 21 Jul 2013, at 00:56, dave wrote: > On Sat, 2013-07-20 at 17:27 -0400, Bruce Layne wrote: >> On 07/19/2013 11:59 PM, Jon Elson wrote: >>> My old microVAX is right next to me, it was SUCH a hot machine in 1986 when >>> I got it. >> >> MicroVAX? Ha! I had a VAX 11/780 system in my suburban living room. I >> rescued it from a local hospital that was going to be forced to pay >> $6000 to have it hauled away as toxic scrap, before commodity prices >> went insane and the thriving metals recycling market emerged. >> >> The VAX occupied almost my entire living room, including the CPU, line >> printer, control console and the two hard disk drives (each of which was >> larger than a commercial clothes washer and could store a whopping 256 >> Mb of data. >> >> I was forced to dispose of the VAX a few years later as a requirement of >> getting married. >> > And what was the heat dissipation of this wonderful beastie? > Probably just fine in the winter but not so nice in the summer unless > you live in MT where the standard definition of summer is: > "any day between the 4th of July and Labor Day that is doesn't snow is > summer". > > Dave >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
