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

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 3/4/2021 12:20 PM, Chris Townley wrote:
> 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 ?

>> 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

I strongly suspect that it was a typo.

I don't think you could stuff 2.5 GB in a 780 and at 1980 RAM prices
it would be crazy expensive.

Arne