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[Zane H. Healy]

At 7:49 AM -0500 12/9/05, Allison wrote:
>  >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
>
>I always used VT100/125 or VT340 as they are smaller than the huge 19"
>DECwindows tube.
>
>Allison

Actually for the most part I've always used a VT220, VT320, or now 
VT420's.  I don't think I ever managed to get the VAXstation II/RC 
booted when the monitor was working, and once I actually wanted to, I 
discovered the monitor wasn't working.  For the past several years 
it's been sitting in a storage unit under a DECwriter II terminal.  I 
ended up with the MicroVAX II before I could get ahold of a 
replacement disk and copy of the OS for the II/RC.

In the past, I have used 17" to 21" monitors on my Alpha's running 
VMS, and come to think of it I briefly had my VS4000VLC hooked up to 
the 17".  Still for the last 5+ years all I've normally used is a 
VT420 as the system console and simply used telnet or ssh to connect 
to a shell session.  Every few months I pull up a DECwindows session 
on my Mac.

		Zane


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