Post #2049275
2026-03-17 08:27 UTC
@mroach I bitterly regret seeing a very small VAX system sat in a second market stall 30 years ago. The guy wanted just £20 for it but my bag was full and I thought it will still be there next week. It wasn’t!
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@mroach@ublog.mroach.com 2026-03-17 08:30
@fergycool Our big lesson here is that the best time to buy old computers and parts is at the moment of opportunity! It's not like they're making them any more. A VAX would have been *sweet*. Did you ever run VMS? I haven't used it personally, but at my first job they had one running for years to support a client that just didn't want to upgrade. We even had an LA120 around into the 2000s.