[Info-vax] OT: About Digital and divisions

[Paul Sture]

On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:49:40 +0000, 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.

I lost count of the types of third party terminals I came across. Some 
were excellents, others positively dire.

> 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.

We used CDC disks on VAXen, but they were the same models as DEC rebadged.
I came across Ampex disks on PDP-11s at a couple of computer buros but we 
had pure DEC at our place.



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