[Info-vax] OT: About Digital and divisions

[Bill Pechter]

In article <jaj164$5as$1 at speranza.aioe.org>,
glen herrmannsfeldt  <gah at ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
>Neil Rieck <n.rieck at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
>(snip)
>> You are correct (sort of). Woz was out (at Apple) because he was
>> pushed out of the way by Jobs after Woz crashed his plane then ended
>> up in hospital with amnesia. When Woz returned to Apple, he was pushed
>> back into the 8-bit division. I find it amusing when people still
>> criticize the OPEN/CLOSED argument. 
>
>(snip)
>> Wozniak was 100% correct and the Mac would be in a very different
>> place Apple had allowed the world-wide computer industry to partner
>> with them rather than compete with them. The same case could be made
>> of Digital by the way. Digital raised the technical bar so-high that
>> one very rarely saw third party devices plugged into a PDP or VAX
>> (although it happened all the time at my penny-pinching company).
>> Third party devices were more common in Alpha (since that platform
>> relied upon COTS technology) but the wakeup call was (IMHO) too
>> little, too late.
>
>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

Systems Industries put a lot of disks out on their 9900 (IIRC) subsystem
using CDC9766's on their own SBI interfaces.  They sold pretty well to
Government customers... Fort Monmouth had some as did the FBI.

Bill

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