5 Oct
2015
5 Oct
'15
7:35 p.m.
On 10/05/2015 09:52 AM, Sean Caron wrote:
I ran OpenVMS V7.2 on a MicroVAX II (KA630) back when
I was in high school
and it ran quite happily albeit very slowly with 16 MB RAM (and a SCSI
disk). Just text mode but I was able to use layered products like TCP/IP or
some of the compilers.
I set up my home MicroVAX in 1986 with just the 1 MB of
memory on the CPU card, an Andromeda MFM + floppy disk
controller and the console serial port. As time and money
permitted, I kept adding stuff to it (VCB-01 and then a
VCB-02, mag tapes, SCSI tapes, ESDI disks, then SCSI disks,
DHV11 and so on.)
I ran it until 2007, although I moved all new software
development to other systems after the mid 90's.
Jon