James Knott via Talk said on Fri, 27 Jun 2025 11:14:07 -0400
On 6/27/25 01:52, Steve Litt via Talk wrote:
Now let me add to the reasons to repair instead of replace. A 20th century appliance is built so simply that it's easy to repair, and there are repair people who still know how to repair it. If you were to replace it with a 2025 appliance, that appliance would go bad in 4 years and would cost the purchase price to fix. So I just made your case 🙂 Back in the 80s, I was a computer tech, maintaining systems from Data General, DEC,
DEC was great. I used several PDP 11s and 1 VAX. On PDP 11, we used RT/11 running TSX to give it multiuser capability.
Collins & Prime.Â
Prime was great. I used a Prime as a student at Santa Monica Community College in the 1980's. They must have had about 60 Wyse terminals hooked to that thing via serial cables, and there were never any problems. SteveT Steve Litt http://444domains.com