[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

Richard B. Gilbert rgilbert88 at comcast.net
Sun Oct 11 22:56:56 EDT 2009


JF Mezei wrote:
> Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> 
>> That technology has been obsolete for years!  
> 
> Change the word "years" with "decades" and I would agree. 1403s were
> late 1970s (still in use in universities in early 1980s).
> 
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Must I point out that decades are made of years?  Yup! Ten per!!

ISTR that we HAD 1403N1 printers at Princeton when I started there in 
January 1970!  The data cable from the 360/30 to the printer was more 
than an inch in diameter.  I think you could call it massively parallel!



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