To: Snowybear
In 1982 it was a Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-11/64 my senior year in high school. When I went to college it was a CDC-6000 shared with the MA state government. When I went to work for Digital Equipment Corporation, it was VAX machines. I didn’t see a PC until around 1996.
Starting in 1982, I cut my teeth on a VAX 780. I used other models of VAX through 1994 working for
General Dynamics - Fort Worth Division: Now Lockheed Martin
Martin Marietta - Orlando: Now Lockheed Martin
General Electric - Aircraft Engines: Now GE Aviation
Good quality machines and a terrible legacy for what happened to them. Shame on Compaq and Hewlett Packard.
1,508 posted on
08/23/2020 10:43:33 PM PDT by
tang-soo
(Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks - Read Daniel Chapter 9)
To: All
To: tang-soo
> Good quality machines and a terrible legacy for what happened to them. Shame on Compaq and Hewlett Packard.
Indeed! The worst part was Digital was also a software company. DEC Runoff was the predecessor to HMTL.
-SB
To: tang-soo
VAXes were *wonderful*. Remember the EDT editor on a VT100 keyboard?
1,541 posted on
08/24/2020 5:57:27 AM PDT by
grey_whiskers
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