[Info-vax] OT: Computing Experience, What brought you to VMS?

[Doc Trins O'Grace]

I started working on a PDP-8 for the ultraviolet spectroscopy analysis from Skylab back in 1974. Then I used RT-11, RSX-11M, TOPS-10, TOPS-20, RSTS/E -- for a long time -- then started using VMS back on version 1.1 and I've been pretty much there ever since. Through the years I've worked on VAX 11/730, VAX 11/780, Microvax, VAXft, Alpha, and, of course, Itanium. Wasn't there something called a Rainbow somewhere along the line, prior to the MicroVAX? It all seems to begin to blend together, you know?

I miss the "good old days" when DECUS symposiums were both exhausting and exhilarating. Who ever ended up winning the unofficial "who can get the most number of ribbons on their badge" contest, anyway?