15 Oct
2015
15 Oct
'15
5:27 a.m.
You want sentimental? I have a VT100 that I know I sold to a customer in
1975 whilst at DEC and that came back a couple of years ago in a
clearout pile from I know not where. I still had my old day book I in
which kept the serial numbers and there it was!! Needless to say
surprise was not the one half of it! Forty years is a good age for any
terminal. Its all cleaned up and looks and works as well as the day it
came off the line at Westfield.
DEC had many plants like Westfield in Massachusetts. Most companies
would have an interplant bus service.
DEC had a helicopter service. The pilots had nealy all been in Vietnam.
I heard the following story at a sales meeting.:
The helicopters would usually rise gently to 2000' and set course fo the
next plant. Unless you asked how they had got on in SE Asia.
Then you got the "how to get to the drop zone whilst avoiding AAA,
smallarms fire and ground to air missiles demo".
Aparrantly one guy said to the person sat next to him it's a pity you
had your eyes closed when we flew under the high voltage wires.
You missed going under the bridge on the other side
Rod Smallwood
On 15/10/2015 04:16, Jon Elson wrote:
On 10/14/2015 12:34 PM, Rod Smallwood wrote:
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Wanted : KDJ11-E M8981 KK8-E M8300 KK8-E M8310 KK8-E M8320 KK8-E M8330
Sorry old chap just an example. I'm a old DEC
guy. My biggest system
is a VAX
I think the 360 was back in the days when they rented every thing so
not much was left behind
Mind you I would not turn down a racks worth of AS400
In the EARLY days of the 360, that was true, but in later days many
people owned their machines. Washington University rented their
360/50, but then bought a used 360/65, and then added two used
370/145s. Despite the number of 360s made, there are REALLY few left,
and I'm not sure anybody has any that run. (Of course, with the SLT
modules, spares would be a REAL problem.)
Yup, for sentimental reasons, I still have my MicroVAX-II here.
Jon