[Info-vax] Reading Gordon Bell's VAX strategy document

[John Dallman]

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, p.g.hardy at btinternet.com (Paul Hardy) wrote:

> I system managed VAX 11/780 serial 000047 in 1979. The original 
> order was for 256K memory, but we upped it to 768K (3/4 MB) before
> delivery. It ran the complete computing of the company, including 
> six programmers, and we sold time on it to at least four other 
> high tech Cambridge companies - Shape Data, GDS, Nine Tiles, and
> whatever Dick Newell_s company was called at the time (CIS?).

It's a small world. I work for what used to be Shape Data, know Tony Ibbs
who used to work at Laser-Scan, and Andrew Kelly, formerly of Nine Tiles.

John