I wonder how long it will last. Blockbuster is still all-dec as well, 
they must have tens of thousand of VT[34]20s in service nationwide, and 
there have to be hundreds of VAXen hidden somewhere too.. i notice many 
local businesses still have DEC gear, and its still ticking. however, the 
end is coming down the road... vax 4000's are starting to show up on ePay 
with greater frequency, and those terminals and stuff only have a few 
more years to go before they start getting flaky.. 
In the ( i think most recent) issue of military &aerospace electronics 
there was an article about some component testing system the navy uses... 
there were some photographs, and one caught my eye because something 
hashed to 'dec gear' in there.. i looked again, and saw an LK201 on some 
big testing station.. i looked closer and the thing had a VRE01 on it 
too! way cool! then i read the article, and they make the hint that 
there's a lot of VAX stuff still in use in the military world.. (as well 
it should! the stuff lasts approximately forever!) 

isildur

On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Dave McGuire wrote:

> On July 28, Lord Isildur wrote:
> > ok, cool. i stand corrected. i guess theres more of this stuff out there 
> > than i thought. does somethign other than DEC late-vax-era serial stuff 
> > use these? 
> 
>   Not that I've seen, no...but there's a LOT of that stuff out there.
> It seems that every auto parts store that I've walked into has a line
> of very dirty VT320s at the parts counter, for example.  I suppose
> they'll be replaced by something newer when they stop doing the job.
> 
>         -Dave
> 
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