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

[Marc Van Dyck]

Phillip Helbigundress to reply explained on 05/03/2021 :
> 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.  :-)

A VAX 780 in a car ??? What car was that ? The one I worked with was
made of 4 cabinets each having the size of a large refrigerator...

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Marc Van Dyck