[commish]

We did all the data processing for the SR-71 Blackbird on a VAX 8350 at Beale in the 1980's. I was a Mission porgrammer writing Fortran 77.

When we got the VAX in 87 we thought it was a godsend, up to that point we had been working on a SEL 32/55 and were still using MYLAR Tape to input the mission data into the SR-71.

[George Smiley]

The VAX I cut my teeth on was an 8530.

Had a six-ton Liebert air conditioner in the corner.

And as a lights-out operation, nobody went in on weekends.

Because of that, you'd come in on Monday morning and it would be so cold in there that you'd expect to see frost on the walls.