this is a crime - help ban vaxbars!

[shoppa_classiccmp at trailing-edge.com]

> [Selling the VAX 11/780 turned into vaxbar]

I'm pretty sure that the original vaxbar conversion took place around
1990 or so.  It's been going on for a while, and if this is indeed
the original vaxbar then perhaps it has some value as being the original
conversion.

You can rail about preservation all you want, but 11/780's were cranked
out by the hundreds of thousands and they are not the easiest system
to keep operational (as compared to a similarly-powerful desktop Microvax).
It's akin to getting a scrapyard Model T (to choose a car that was as
commonly produced as the 11/780) and turning it into a hot rod with
few original components other than a heavily modified frame.  Yeah, the
Model T certainly has collector value, but earlier it had value as
common and easily found!

Tim.