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- From: kjb@calmasd.prime.com (Ken Brucker)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
- Subject: Re: VAX QUESTIONS FROM BEGINNER!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug17.113851.692@calmasd.prime.com>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 19:38:51 GMT
- References: <1992Aug15.031519.27932@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> <1992Aug15.091605.199@rlgsc.com>
- Organization: Computervision - A Division of Prime Computer
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- In article <1992Aug15.091605.199@rlgsc.com>, gezelter@rlgsc.com writes:
- > In article <1992Aug15.031519.27932@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, aj681@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Carlin Wiegner) writes:
- >>
- >> I'm thinking of buying a used VAX -11/780 but I have a couple of
- >> questions....
- >>
- > At the risk of depressing the market value of used 780s, I note
- > that unless you are getting power, air conditioning, and office
- > space for free, the 780 is extremely expensive relative to the
- > latest (or for that matter last 6!) generations of small vax
- > hardware. So, you may want to check into the cost of the small
- > VAXstation 4000/VLC.
- >
-
- And don't forget the maintainance charges if you plan on having software and/or
- hardware support for the system. We retired a number of 780 boxes using the
- maintainance costs as a large part of the justification.
-
- Ken
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