New subject: LSSM VAX-11/780 success

28 Nov 2025

On 11/27/2025 3:45 AM, Terri Kennedy wrote:
...
    Dave says this is the first time he has been in the
same
 room as a working 780. Yay! And a big shout out to all of
 the volunteers who have been working to get this system run-
 ning, with work starting all the way back in 2018!
 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.

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John H. Reinhardt

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