The DEC equipment was great stuff at the time... I did a lot of
automation work in conjunction with DEC 11/23's 11/34's etc. Mostly
for automatic package sorters and order tracking. I had to go through
the training session on how to learn how to drill and tap thicknet
Ethernet.. Cutting edge technology back then. But that was a long
time ago now.....
I have, I believe, a 11/34 rack in my garage that we never used. It
cost a small fortune when purchased back in the early 80's. I bought
it for a project long ago that was cancelled. It sat in the plant for
years until they decided to scrap it. At the time, I still remembered
the PO price and there was no way I was going to allow them to scrap
such a valuable rack! So I loaded it up into my 1978 Chevy conversion
van while trying not to mark up the red velour interior, the shag
carpetting, or the tinted red mood lights (really).
Now it works great as an electric tool storage rack in my garage. :-)
Remember the DEC VT100s, and what were those giant DEC
terminal/line printers, those things weighed an awful lot. I think
the steel companies sold a lot of material to DEC.
Dave
On 3/26/2010 6:44 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 26 March 2010, Mark Wendt (Contractor) wrote:
>
>> At 10:16 PM 3/25/2010, you wrote:
>>
>>> Mark Wendt (Contractor) wrote:
>>>
>>>> Ah, VMS. DEC in all it's glory! Still my favorite OS!
>>>>
>>> Very sad! It was so CONSISTENT, if a particular option was in a
>>> particular place, or spelled a certain way, it would be that way
>>> everywhere it appeared! That was wonderful.
>>>
>>> Now that I am a pretty-well converted Linux guy, I can see some of the
>>> places it didn't run all that well. One was if files got too
>>> fragmented, the file system (RMS) would just crash, and the
>>> de-fragmenting was pretty messy, rolling the whole volume to tape and
>>> restoring.
>>> Creating a child process was awfully slow. As memory got bigger, the
>>> page size was way too small, and the page table became a monster. The
>>> Alpha architecture tried to fix the last one, but it only partially
>>> accomplished that. We still have an Alpha system running at work.
>>> I finally retired my home VaxStation-II that I built from boards bought
>>>
>> >from brokers. KA-630, VCB-02. The hard drive croaked.
>>
>>> Jon
>>>
>> We had a VAX 600 running here at the Lab that resided on it's own
>> little network, and it had an uptime of well over 10 years...
>>
>> Mark
>>
> And I once had a CBS supplied PDP-11/23 that self reset itself several times
> a day, and just plain crashed several more times. DEC field service
> couldn't fix it and they changed everything but the frame rail the serial
> number was on. They couldn't change that because the service contract was
> for that serial number. Because of that one machine, at one affiliates
> site, CBS had to replace every computer at every affiliate. What forced the
> issue was me blowing up so often that their tech made the mistake of
> offering to trade me his test mule for mine. When he found it wouldn't run
> long enough to be used as a service fixture and the DEC folks in NYC
> couldn't fix it either, they replaced them all with an IBM industrial with
> an ARTIC card.
>
>
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