🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1992Sep27.215953.26882@klaava.Helsinki.FI>, vhalkka@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Vesa Halkka) writes:
> In <1992Sep22.142356.1923@einoed.in-berlin.de> alh@einoed.in-berlin.de (Adrian Le Hanne) writes:
> 
>>Hello,
> 
>>someone offered to sell me a used Microvax 2000. What should one pay for
>>such a beast and what are the typical configurations (HD, FD/tape, memory,
>>serial ports, network, internal bus)?
> 
> Usually old VAXes are free.. because they are large and heavy and it is
> expensive to get rid of them. 2000 is small enough to be put into
> normal trashcans.. maybe you should pay DM50
> 

This is not entirely true.  Such a machine often contains components which are
valuable in their own right, such as hard disks and tape drives.  Certainly the
older VAXes and MicroVAXes aren't such speedy computers, but you have to
consider what you're getting in parts, too.  Just my humble opinion.

========================================================================
OBRIEN@YALEVMS                Jim O'Brien, Dept. of Chem. Engrg.
OBRIEN@VENUS.YCC.YALE.EDU     Yale University             
                              2159 YS, New Haven CT 06520, U.S.A.
                              +1 203 432 4382 (days)
========================================================================