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From: tli@sargas.usc.edu (Tony Li)
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Subject: Re: VAX 11/730
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Date: Fri, 21-Aug-87 03:38:39 EDT
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Posted: Fri Aug 21 03:38:39 1987
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As an PAINFULLY EXPERIENCED 11/730 user....

The 730 physically is about 15" high in a standard DEC (deep) cabinet.
It fits in nicely with an R80 (150Mb) and Rl02 drives, giving a full
cabinet.

VMS and (I believe) BSD run on it, as with most conventional Vaxen.

I find it useful as a stand-alone single user machine.  For the money,
it is slow, very power hungry and noisy.  Given the choice between the
730 and a small workstation (Sun 3/50, Vaxstation X), I'd take the
workstation every single time.

Cheers,
Tony ;-)
Tony Li - USC University Computing Services	"Fene mele kiki bobo"
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