[Info-vax] Large mailboxes

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 11/27/20 12:32 PM, Richard Loken wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Nov 2020, Marc Van Dyck via Info-vax wrote:
> 
>> BTW, the first VAX I worked with had 1.5 MB of DEC memory and another
>> MB from a less expensive third party company. This is the kind of
>> figure that lets you figure how far we are coming from, and how fast
>> it has evolved. Today it's the memory size you get in a wristwatch...
> 
> My employer got a VAX11/780 in 1980 which had AFAIR 1.5Mbyte.  A year or
> two later they replaced the whole module with a 4Mbyte module - I saw
> the 1.5Mbyte before it was taken away, it was the size of a 1980s era
> microwave oven.

Don't have top go back that far.  I can remember sitting in our VMS
Admin's (Hi Lori if your still around.) and we were laughing about
the fact that, given the size and form factor of the original "SIMMs"
for the first Alpha's to come out it would take an entire room just
to hold the memory the draft spec said it could address.

bill