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

[Marc Van Dyck]

Marc Van Dyck wrote on 05/03/2021 :
> Arne Vajhøj laid this down on his screen :
>> 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
>
> Oooopsss... 2.5 MB, not GB, indeed. Sorry.

Even those 2.5 MB were crazy expensive, so we had 1.5 MB of original
DEC memory and the additional MB came from an alternate supplier.

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Marc Van Dyck