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

[Dave Froble]

On 3/4/2021 7:02 PM, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
> 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. ;)
>

I've always been amazed that such prices could be afforded back then, 
but not now ....

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