11 Feb
2016
11 Feb
'16
8:34 a.m.
On 02/11/2016 08:56 AM, Mark Wickens wrote:
It's good to hear that the VAX was a
cost-effective solution - there are
too many stories about how expensive DEC gear was, but I imagine they
primarily came after PCs started dropping in price.
We paid somewhere between 200 and 250K for our first
11/780. We had an RM05 and a TU77, and 256 KB of memory.
It was a pretty basic system, but ran rings around the
campus 360/65 system. We also had a pair of 370/145's that
were an expensive joke. (The 360/65 ran rings around BOTH
of them. They ran time sharing on them, limited to 4
users/machine. We often had 8+ users plus batch jobs
running on our 780.)
Jon