VAX 8600 (was Re: the last MIT ITS dec-20 (AI.MIT.EDU) is up for sale)

[Gordon JC Pearce]

Ethan Dicks wrote:
> On 10/18/06, Witchy <witchy at binarydinosaurs.co.uk> wrote:
>> On Tue, October 17, 2006 11:25 pm, Jules Richardson said:
>> >
>> > There's always the DECSystem 570 and the VAX 8600 to get your teeth 
>> into -
>>
>> *looks for picture of VAX8600, fails*
> 
> Google Image search is your friend...
> 
> http://hampage.hu/vax/e_1984.html
> 
> I never ran one, but I used to walk past one in a semi-stripped
> condition at Lucent in Columbus, OH, c. 1997.

I have an RL02 labelled up "VAX8600 Console" or similar, that came with 
my PDP-11/73 that originally belonged to Aberdeen College of 
Agriculture.  This may tie in with Aberdeen Uni having a 20..

I doubt the -20 was at RGIT - they had a Honeywell among others, and I 
missed a couple of PDP-8s before they hit the skip around 15 years ago :-/

Gordon.