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> I know a defence company that has a bunch of vaxes stored in low oxygen environments because they legally have to be able to provide software updates to firmware they’ve written for the next 20 or so years and it was written on a vax.

So uh, will these ever make it to an auction site you think?

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I have an Acer Chromebook with Celeron N3060 CPU and it runs the SIMH VAX emulator with 64MB for the VAX at the same speed as a Vaxstation 4000/60 and likely the disk is much faster.

I like OpenVMS and am slowly learning more about it; no reason to wait until you see those hit eBay :-)

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