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

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <s1rsev$dij$1 at dont-email.me>, "John H. Reinhardt"
<johnhreinhardt at thereinhardts.org> writes: 

> >>> 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. ;) 

Interestingly, while working at Jodrell Bank and collecting DEC gear, 
once I went to pick up some terminals and the guy said that he had some 
other stuff and could I take it all, giving away what I didn't need.  I 
said OK, and was surprised that one of the things was an 11/780, which I 
just managed to get in my car.  But within 24 hours I had about a dozen 
people interested in having it.  It went into a barn where it was 
dwarfed by the rest of the huge hardware collection.  :-)