Top 10 New Uses for an Old VAX
A DEC VAX 11-785 sits idle in Bernie Bonnie's museum in the basement of
Hoyt. What to do with it...
Shove it off the roof of Hoyt
Attach a mouse to it...no, a
real mouse :)
Surprise John Ackley with
it...he opens the door and finds a VAX taking up half the office
Put an entire kitchen appliance
set in there...fridge, range, toaster...
Give pieces of it to everyone in
the Math/CS department (Give me the serial adaptor!)
Make a two-occupancy capsule
motel out of the frame
Running vi a lot...again
Two words: VAX Bar
Make rat cages out of the frame
for the Psychology Department
Plug it in, turn it on, and
watch all the lights go dim
Because...old VAXen never die...they just take up space in closets. :)