[Info-vax] What are the earliest DEC operating systems you worked with ?
Marc Van Dyck
marc.gr.vandyck at invalid.skynet.be
Sun Mar 7 12:28:45 EST 2021
abrsvc used his keyboard to write :
> On Friday, 5 March 2021 at 12:11:03 UTC-5, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply)
> wrote:
>> In article <mn.2c3a7e53cd... at invalid.skynet.be>, Marc Van Dyck
>> <marc.gr... at invalid.skynet.be> writes:
>>
>>> 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...
>> Just one cabinet, but refrigerator size is correct. I moved the front
>> seats all the way up and folded down the back seat in an estate car.
>
> Really?? The main 11/780 cab was a double wide cabinet. I don't think it
> would fit into any car. I can dig up the specs as I'm sure I still have them
> around to get the exact size, but... The expansion cabs were the size of
> refrigerators and most setups had at least 1.
If I remember well, ours was made of 4 cabinets in total. One double
for the CPU, one for MassBus, and one for Unibus and péripherals
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Marc Van Dyck
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