[Info-vax] What "VAX" was this ...

[11brvo at gmail.com]

On Thursday, October 24, 2013 5:25:24 PM UTC-4, ralph wrote:
> Was going down memory lane swapping war stories and trying to remember
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> a VAX box I breiefly programmed on in the late 90's. Would like to
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> know the name of it.
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> It was a separate console with monitor and keyboard built in. Was
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> using C but had special libraries for "record" files.
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> Made calls out to an "Assembly Language" which was more of "low-level
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> script" or "macro assembler".
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> The keyboard had a separate "number-pad" which you used to enter
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> commands for an EVE editor.
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> The keyboard had a bulls-eye key.
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> There was a printer attached, but it was amazingly complicated to
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> actually print to it from the console.
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> Ring any bells?
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> 
> Thanks.

More than likely the machine of which you speak was a VAX 8800.  Sounds like it anyway.