Jonathan R. Hinds wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Gunnar Helliesen wrote:
> 
> > If I have the money I'm going to place an order for a VAX next
> > September, and try to get NetBSD/vax up and running on it. 
> Just for old
> > times sake... heck, I grew up with VAXen, learned to 
> program on them and
> > learned how to be a sysadmin on a VAXcluster with almost a thousand
> > users. This is quite emotional for me, excuse me while I 
> blow my nose
> > and wipe a tear from my eyes... ;-)
> > 
> 
> 
> I just called Compaq to find out the prices on these systems. The
> Vaxstation 4000 m96 with 64megs of ram, cdrom, 1gig harddisk and with
> educational discount was $17,644. The MicroVAX 3100 with 
> simillar setup
> was $22,800. I didn't even bother asking about the VAX 4000.

OK, scratch that plan then. No wonder they're not selling any VAXen!

Gunnar

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