[geeks] Digital VAXstation 3100

Charles Shannon Hendrix shannon at widomaker.com
Tue Aug 31 23:38:36 CDT 2004


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...

Hopefully I can rescue it.

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dangerous in herds."]



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