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

[Chris Townley]

On 04/03/2021 16:50, Marc Van Dyck wrote:
> Simon Clubley laid this down on his screen :
>> 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.
> 
> University, 1980. VAX/VMS V2.0 on a VAX 780.
> 2,5 GB of memory, 3 disks of 72 MB each, a tape drive, and 40 serial
> lines hooked to VT100 or LA120 (for APL, we were FT site) terminals.
> Ah yes, and two LPxxx printers and a card reader.
> Never left VMS after that, till now...
> 
That was a vast amount of memory then!

We ran a full production setup with 80 odd users in 1990 with 32Mb

Chris