[geeks] Digital VAXstation 3100

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 12:38:36AM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Tue, 31 Aug 2004 @ 18:49 -0500, Jonathan C. Patschke said:
> 
> > On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> > 
> > >Anyway, is it worth rescuing?  I've only used the larger VAXen before.
> > 
> > It's slow (about half the speed of a VAXstation 4000/VLC), but, yes,
> > worth rescuing, as it's a good VMS learning box.  It's also as useful
> > now as it was when it was bought.  So long as you don't need to run gobs
> > and gobs of Java stuff or other bloated junk, it'll run well-engineered
> > code nicely.
> > 
> > How is it configured?
> 
> No idea.
> 
> Right now its configuration is "sitting on the junkpile".
> 
> Stupid unions...

Tell them that it is hazardous waste (true) and they cannot dispose of
it normally.  But if you take it home and use it they don't have to
pay someone to haul it away.

--P