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

[John H. Reinhardt]

On 3/4/2021 1:19 PM, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
> In article <s1rbdl$8vc$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
> <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
> 
>> On 2021-03-04, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
>>>
>>> When I started working at Jodrell Bank in 1977, they were just moving
>>                                              ^^^^
>> Did you mean a couple of decades later than that ? :-)
> 
> Yes, 1997!  No Alphas in 1977, and VAXes, I don't know, probably just
> barely, and certainly nothing I could have bought from my own money!
> 

The only available VAX in 1979 was the 11/780. At roughly $200K - $250K US it's not likely you would have bought one. ;)

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John H. Reinhardt