VAX 9000 (was: Re: Sun 386i available)

[Witchy]

On Fri, December 16, 2005 12:55 am, Allison said:
> didn't like the idea or could not support water for the system.  NY some
> of the older buildings took near a year to get adaquate power for smaller
> machines.  Water, forget about that.

The naiive side of me decided that companies based in older buildings
wouldn't need the power of a VAX 9000, but I've only been a tourist in NYC
so I'm fully prepared to be scoffed at :)

> It was a good machine that held up well in use.  The bulk of them
> succumed when installed (phase rotation had the blowers backward!)
> and the usual field circus tricks.

My contact had their uptime at 24 days max, but perhaps that was a UK bad
machine!

> a mill. Field service offered them all sorts of inducements during
> the 80s to replace it.  I believe they system cost over a half million
> to replace with software and stuff tossed in.  It was just too costly
> to fix the PDP1 if it broke.

I'd love to know if that's still in use, they'd be surely in line for some
sort of award!


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