I Bought a $200K VAX on eBay – Now It Runs My Smart Lights [video]

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PaulHoule · 6h ago

My high school got a VAX 11/730 to replace their PDP-8 in the mid 1980's which made it practical to teach programming classes based on PASCAL.

The VAX 11/780 was considered a big machine when it came out in 1977, which had a "32-bit" architecture very similar to the 68k and 386 machines. By the late 1980s, you could buy a 386 desktop computer that whupped the VAX.

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I Bought a $200K VAX on eBay – Now It Runs My Smart Lights [video]

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