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gah4 <
gah4@u.washington.edu> writes:
> Until a few years ago, the best place to find a running VAX was the Living
> Computer Museum in Seattle. (That is, a non-micro VAX.)
> The museum is still there, but has been closed since early 2000.
You meant "2020", of course.
> I believe the VAX runs on emulated disk, though.=20
Your belief is irrelevant.
The VAX 11/780-5 ran against an HSJ with a full load of 2GB drives.
> They do have VAX disk drives, but I don`t remember RM05 being one of them.
We had a couple of RM05s, but they were part of a DECSYSTEM-2020 that was kept
unrestored (the late Mark Crispin`s Lingling.Panda.com).
> Keeping old disk drives running is much harder than old CPUs.
Preach.
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