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

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2014-02-06 08:58, Doc Trins O'Grace wrote:
> 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?

Rainbow was a IBM-PC sortof-compatible machine. Ran CP/M and MS-DOS. 
Came at the same time as the DECmate and the Professional.

Lated DEC also made the VAXmate, which was yet another PC-compatible 
thing (sortof).

	Johnny