[Info-vax] OT: About Digital and divisions

[ChrisQ]

On 11/23/11 14:49, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:

>
> Well, using non-DEC terminals wasn't all that rare, though many
> that I knew did use DEC terminals.  For remote dial-up, though,
> you used what you had.
>
> Other than that, though, yes, likely rare.  Did anyone use
> non-DEC disks with VAX?   For PDP-11 it seems more common to
> use other disk systems.
>
> -- glen

Nearly all the companies I worked with used 3rd party drives and
controllers, as well as analog / digital and specialist comms cards.
It was a thriving ecosystem, because the dec kit was so much more
expensive and in many cases, no better quality or reliability. The
most common disk setup would be fujitsu smd drives with either Dilog
or more commonly, Emulex disk controllers, on unibus or qbus. Emulex
were and are a first class engineering company and still in business,
whereas many of the others faded into obscurity in later years...

Regards,

Chris