Bad reporting in our hobby:

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Friday 05 December 2008, Ian King wrote:
> Yeah, but move it from one floor of a building to another and you'd
> best reseat all the boards.  Ironic, isn't it?  -- Ian

Actually, the last time I was having problems with my VAX (shortly 
before this year's VCF/MW), I moved it to the VCF, and powered it up... 
Apparently, the jostling re-seated the boards enough to make it work 
again.

Pat

>
> PS: my comment was mostly about the relative values of a VAX, a Miata
> and a Hummer.  I don't own a Miata or a Hummer, but I have multiple
> VAXen.... 

VAXes may be less common, but in they certainly aren't worth as much 
(monetarily) as most cars these days.  Anything more than a few k$ from 
a reseller for pretty much any model you can find readily would really 
suprise me.

Pat

> ________________________________________ 
> From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org]
> On Behalf Of Guy Sotomayor [ggs at shiresoft.com] Sent: Friday, December
> 05, 2008 7:03 PM
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
> Subject: Re: Bad reporting in our hobby:
>
> On Dec 5, 2008, at 11:11 AM, Fred Cisin wrote:
> >> No, not a VAX!  Those are valuable!
> >
> > Would it actually damage the VAX?
>
> Probably not.  I dropped an 11/780 off the lift gate of a truck once
> (not on purpose).  The lift gate was about 3' off the ground when the
> VAX decided it wanted off (I wasn't going to go with it)!  It made a
> dent in the ground.  The VAX got some scratches but was otherwise
> fine.
>
> TTFN - Guy



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