On Thu, 6 Oct 1994, Garry Page wrote:

> > BTW, is there any good information out there for people interested 
> > in getting a home vax? A list of the various models, their relative 
> > speeds and features, and approx current value? I've browsed 
> > _PROCESSOR_ and the like, but without knowing the obscure DEC part 
> > numbers it's not much help.
> 
> I haven't seen a document that has what you really need to select a home
> system. I would suggest selection order would be cost, power requirements
> (single phase/3-phase) plus cooling requirements, physical size
> (Vax-11/782/Desktop), options (disk size etc), speed. The UseNet
> VMS, DEC and Folklore.computers areas maybe more appropriate for this
> discussion. My experience is limited to an 11/750 at home, it was the
> machine I could afford to buy. 
> 

If there was enough interest, I could parcel out my time and create a VAX 
modules list in the vein of my PDP-11 modules Field Guide. It would be a 
"what is this module/board?" only list, but I would be glad to correlate 
information from other sources to create the needed resource list.


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