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In the book "Soul of a new machine" there is described a moment in 1978 when an Data General engineer (Tom West) gets to go look at and take apart a newly installed DEV VAX at a friends company.

Oddly VAX cost $200,000.

Very short exert http://kottke.org/14/07/the-soul-of-a-new-machine

Long exert of the book which continues the story of the VAX disassembly was published in the Atlantic called "flying upside-down".

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1981/07/flying-u...

Soul of a new machine is a really good book. highly recomended.

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