[Info-vax] What are the earliest DEC operating systems you worked with ?

[John H. Reinhardt]

On 3/3/2021 12:24 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> What are the earliest DEC operating systems you worked with ?
> 
> For me, I started with a PDP-11 running RSTS/E V9.{something early},
> then onto VAX/VMS V5.{something} and then onto Alpha VMS V6.{something}.
> 
> I have not touched any Itanium systems.
> 
> Simon.
> 

My first introduction to the DEC world was in the summer of 1977 at Camp Retupmoc at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.  It was RSTS/E V06B on a PDP-11/70.  A year later in 1978 I started my freshman year there and it had been upgraded to V06C.  Later it was V7.0 and up to V7.2 (I think) by the time I left in 1983.  In the meantime the VAX-11/780 arrived over summer break in 1980 and I was introduced to VAX/VMS V2.1 in the Fall of that year.  Over the summer of 1981 Rose received several LSI-11 systems on a grant and I was introduced to RT-11, not sure which version. I still have two TU58 tape cartridges for booting RT11SJ.  If I only had a TU58 tape drive.  In 1998 I had a consulting job and met my first Alpha.  It was an AlphaServer 2100 cluster with two systems and shared SCSI disks running OpenVMS V6.2

I have also run OpenVMS IA64 on personal RX2600's and an RZ2660.  Looking forward to OpenVMS x86 later this year (hopefully)

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John H. Reinhardt