From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: rminnich@gmail.com (ron minnich) Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 16:46:18 +0000 Subject: [TUHS] VAX dates (was /dev/drum) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 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 wrote: > On 4/22/18, Clem cole 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. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: