I know speed wise this was the slowest VAX of the day, but mine came from a former DEC engineer and was used as a CAD station - it had a socking great Tektronix monitor with it that's now at TNMoC in Bletchley Park. Or at least I hope it still is.
-- adrian/witchy Owner of Binary Dinosaurs, the UK's biggest home computer collection? t: @binarydinosaurs f: facebook.com/binarydinosaurs w: www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk On Mon, 13 Aug 2018 at 16:48, Zane Healy via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > On Aug 13, 2018, at 8:22 AM, Douglas Taylor via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > On 8/12/2018 11:36 PM, robertbeauchamp33--- via cctalk wrote: > >> My mother is moving and her spouse has a MicroVax I he bought new back > in 1984 for some crazy amount. I don’t see this model listed in your chart? > Can you tell me if there is any value to this machine? He also has two > original monitors. > >> > >> Sent from my iPhone > > > > Could be quite interesting to this community depending on how it has > been stored since 1984 and is it complete and functional. Don't have any > expectations for hard disks to work. What models are the monitors? > VT100's? Do you have the keyboards? Any software? > > > > It is an antique and the condition, along with what's inside of the box > determine how much interest there will be. > > > > As far as Vax and MicroVax systems the MicroVax I was probably the > slowest of them all, and least capable. Their selling point was that they > didn't need an entire room, it could be placed in a normal office > environment. > > > > Doug > > Something that comes to my mind, what chassis were available for the > MicroVAX I? I’m far more familiar with the MicroVAX II. While > traditionally I’ve preferred the BA123 chassis, I’m rather partial to the > BA23’s these days, as they take up about half the space. > > Good point on the monitor question, I was trying to figure out how/why a > MicroVAX I would have two monitors. Two terminals makes perfect sense. > > Zane > > >
