From: rminnich@gmail.com (ron minnich)
Subject: [TUHS] VAX dates (was /dev/drum)
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 16:46:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP6exYJtYDX2xUyvgr5tzEZYV=tYnNAzuJkJ0k_yfdXebX8N3A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABH=_VSBjVzs6jTQYfz8JH6X4AQ3HQQQyTzuXftOYxPHoEffxg@mail.gmail.com>
yeah we heard about the vax for several years at udel but my recollection
is also around 1978 as "real" announcement.
A friend at DEC worked on microcode, one version of which made the vax into
a pdp-8.
ron
On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 4:58 AM Paul Winalski <paul.winalski at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On 4/22/18, Clem cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
> >
> > BTW if you want to be correct about dates - the DEC released the Vax in
> 76
> > not 78 ( I personally used to program Vax serial #1 at CMU under VMS 1.0
> > before I was at UCB which is what Dan had asked).
>
> As I remember it, DEC announced the VAX in 1976 or 1977, and first
> official customer ship didn't happen until 1978. Holy Cross had one
> of the hardware beta machines in 1977. It ran a beta version of VMS
> (version X0.5 initially). I ported a bunch of programs to the VAX,
> including the PDP-10 version of Adventure.
>
> -Paul W.
>
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