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[Zane H. Healy]

At 9:33 PM -0500 12/8/05, Allison wrote:
>  >  [The first "personal" VAX I ever owned was a VS2000, around 1989/1990.  I
>>used to come home, turn it on, and I could make dinner while I waited for it
>>to boot and start DECwindows!]
>
>I have three of them, one is used for formatting disks both floppy and hard.
>My first uVAX was a MicroVAX-II in BA23, still have it.

Is a VS2000 really that slow to boot?  I own one, but it has memory 
problems, they don't prevent me from formating drives, but they do 
prevent it from booting an OS.

My first uVAX was a VAXstation II/RC in a BA23, I've still got it, 
though the monitor needs repaired.  My second was a MicroVAX II in a 
BA123, and was the first VAX I got running, it's now my PDP-11/73. 
I've never seen a MicroVAX II boot slow enough to make dinner :^)

		Zane


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