On Tuesday, June 15, 1993 at 2:36:30 PM UTC-4, Mark Bartelt wrote:
> [ Bill Jensen ]
> | If you have a serious interest in this hardware, or know someone who
> | would, please contact Brian Gunn at (301) 317-7309.
> [ Charlie Byrne ]
> | Every July 4th, the Pompano Beach Fishing Rodeo, Inc. in Broward County,
> | Florida sinks a huge boat as part of their artificial reef program. They
> | can be reached via (305) 555-1212.
> [ Tom Testagrossa ]
> | Well, as one who worked on lots of older equipment for a long time
> | I know that that's not a viable alternative...most of them aren't
> | even good boat anchors...they might float intermittently!
> Wouldn't the likelihood of that depend on whether the system came equipped
> with the optional FPA?
> Mark Bartelt 416/978-5619
> Canadian Institute for ma...@cita.toronto.edu
> Theoretical Astrophysics ma...@cita.utoronto.ca
> "Clothes not busy being worn are busy drying." - Dylan, on laundry day
> [ singing "It's all right, ma (I'm only bleaching)" ]

Hello! I am looking for a functioning or non-functioning VAX 11/780. I would be most grateful if anyone could reach out with information on where to find one!

Very best,

Maggie Ambrose <maggie.ambrose1@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tuesday, June 15, 1993 at 2:36:30 PM UTC-4, Mark Bartelt wrote:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Maggie,

Do you realize that you responded to a post which is almost 30 years old?

> > [ Bill Jensen ]
> > | If you have a serious interest in this hardware, or know someone who
> > | would, please contact Brian Gunn at (301) 317-7309.
> > [ Charlie Byrne ]
> > | Every July 4th, the Pompano Beach Fishing Rodeo, Inc. in Broward County,
> > | Florida sinks a huge boat as part of their artificial reef program. They
> > | can be reached via (305) 555-1212.
> > [ Tom Testagrossa ]
> > | Well, as one who worked on lots of older equipment for a long time
> > | I know that that's not a viable alternative...most of them aren't
> > | even good boat anchors...they might float intermittently!
> > Wouldn't the likelihood of that depend on whether the system came equipped
> > with the optional FPA?
> > Mark Bartelt 416/978-5619
> > Canadian Institute for ma...@cita.toronto.edu
> > Theoretical Astrophysics ma...@cita.utoronto.ca
> > "Clothes not busy being worn are busy drying." - Dylan, on laundry day
> > [ singing "It's all right, ma (I'm only bleaching)" ]
>
> Hello! I am looking for a functioning or non-functioning VAX 11/780. I would be most grateful if anyone could reach out with information on where to find one!
>
> Very best,

--
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Audendum est, et veritas investiganda; quam etiamsi non assequamur,
omnino tamen proprius, quam nunc sumus, ad eam perveniemus.
--Galen

Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> wrote:
>Maggie Ambrose <maggie.ambrose1@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Tuesday, June 15, 1993 at 2:36:30 PM UTC-4, Mark Bartelt wrote:
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>Maggie,
>
>Do you realize that you responded to a post which is almost 30 years old?
>

Thirty years ago I could have given you an 11/780. It has since gone to
the recyclers.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

Of course he knows he's responding to a post over thirty years old.; so am I. I had a DEC VAX 11/780 I acquired as a hobbyist, and now in retirement decades later, I would give my eye-teeth to get one now. I picked that old machine up thirty-plus years ago (longer maybe) and wish I would have kept it back in the barn to play with. I didn't know what to do with it then, and now, after decades of programing, I would love to. Yeah, it weights a ton, consumes a lot of juice, but hey, stuff is so crazy now it would be a ton of fun to play with those 200lb 20Mb drives, multiple terminals and console.. I was new then, after my VIC and Tandy I picked up a couple of IBM PCs and foolishly used the VAX console to stick my new PCs on. Now my systems and servers are absolutely crazy, but I would sure like to peek and poke a bit on these older systems. Who remembers pre-PC PASCAL? Anybody got one rotting in their barn?

On Thursday, May 6, 2021 at 3:52:28 PM UTC-7, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> Rich Alderson <ne...@alderson.users.panix.com> wrote:
> >Maggie Ambrose <maggie....@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> On Tuesday, June 15, 1993 at 2:36:30 PM UTC-4, Mark Bartelt wrote:
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> >Maggie,
> >
> >Do you realize that you responded to a post which is almost 30 years old?
> >
> Thirty years ago I could have given you an 11/780. It has since gone to
> the recyclers.
> --scott
> --
> "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."