28 Nov
2025
28 Nov
'25
11:14 p.m.
On 11/28/25 00:15, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
Yay Dave! I have had the pleasure of knowing 3
different VAX-11/780
systems. The first was the one we got at Rose-Hulman over the summer of
1980 to supplement our PDP-11/70 and 11/45. I believe the 11/45 might
have been traded in as part of the VAX purchase. Things are hazy. The
other two were in 1983 when I went to work at DePauw University in
Greencastle, IN, just up I-70 from Terre Haute and Rose. There were one
each for the academic and administrative sides of the school. I was
hired on the administrative side as one of the programmers to convert
their BASIC PLUS 2 applications on their PDP-11/70 to VAX BASIC on the
VAX-11.
Very nice!! I'm hoping to get a DEUNA running in the machine
tonight. We don't have a permanent system disk for it yet (we borrowed
an RA90 from the VAX-11/750, yay dual-ported drives) but that'll be next.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA