Subject: Re: Interesting item on eBay web site item#192631369: VAX 9000 Model
To: Brian D Chase <bdc@world.std.com>
From: Akos Varga <hamster@telnet.hu>
List: port-vax
Date: 11/05/1999 01:30:54
> So one question, the VAX 9000 pictured there. Did that make it's way into
> Hungary *before* or *after* the fall of the Iron Curtain? :-)
After. The 9000 was introduced around 1989/90, which was the time of
the fall anyway :) The machines that were smuggled into the country
as "air conditioners" and miscellanous other items were 8xxx's, and
a couple of 780's...
Hamster