[smonk]

we had HSC failures, HDD crashes, DECservers die, and a DELNI blew up in a lightning storm one night.

but as far as the VAX itself was concerned, I was sure it would run underwater and shot with a .45 slug.

we replaced them years ago with alpha4100's that were very reliable, but not quite as "unstoppable" as I found the VAX family. now, they are gone, too, and alas, my data center is jam packed with blue Dell servers . . . .

[vrwc0915]

" my data center is jam packed with blue Dell servers ."

to do the work of 2 alphas :)

[George Smiley]

we had HSC failures, HDD crashes, DECservers die, and a DELNI blew up in a lightning storm one night.

Ha! When an RA81 disk had a head crash, you got aural confirmation of the event.