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

[BillPedersen]

On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 2:33:02 AM UTC-5, Mac Decman wrote:
> I know I really am a newbie here.  Heck, I grew up on an Apple IIgs.
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> Granted my parents kept me from computers for a long time, but still I
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> missed a huge part of it. 
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>  I met VMS at PSNS (Bremerton, WA) for the first when I was six years
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> old and fell in love with the syntax of DCL.  I waited a long time
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> until I could afford to buy my own VAXstation.  In fact, I bought a
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> HP9000 as my first purchase.  I think it was something like the 827s.
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> But I can't be sure anymore.  Really don't remember. 
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>  Anyway, I thought it would be fun, in the line of Simon's post to
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> ask, what brought you to VMS?
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> Mark

In an odd way, oceanography brought me to VMS.  My first real job was as a research engineer for an international oceanographic project we used PDP-11s running various versions of RSX and its variants (RSX-11D/M/S and IAS) as well as RT-11 and DOS-11.

I eventually joined Digital Equipment Corporation in the May after VMS and the VAX were announced as a software specialist.  Spent time there and then went off into the "wild world" and have been using, programming and consulting on VMS ever since.  Some evangelizing as well!

Bill.