On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Brian D Chase wrote:
> >From the VARM:
> 
>   The VAXstation 8000 (VS8000), introduced in February 1988, was
>   Digital's first true 3D workstation.  Based on the VAX 8200 CPU
>   packaged in a deskside enclosure, the VAXstation 8000 used a
>   sophisticated 3D graphics subsystem designed with Evans and 
>   Sutherland.  This graphics subsystem consisted of the complete
>   3D graphics pipeline and additional hardware support for such
>   features as hardware anti-aliasing of vectors and depth queuing.

If these things are large and grey and look like they glom on to the side
of a VAX then I've got 3 of 'em.

I actually hotwired one to power and got it to talk to me over the serial
port.  Dimmed the lights in my room.

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