A new old thing

[Ravi Bhavnani]

Dang, I wish I'd kept my µVAX-II.  I used to sit on it while playing guitar.  It was the perfect height - and boy could it support a ton!  Although I think my iPod Nano probably has more power. :) /ravi

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[Ravi Bhavnani]

Here's[^] some more nostalgia. :) /ravi

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[Ravi Bhavnani]

I'm sure you have one of these[^]. :) /ravi

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[PIEBALDconsult]

I have a VT101 User Guide -- it's my go-to source for ASCII tables.

[Lost User]

Awesome! :-D

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[Ravi Bhavnani]

Not to mention glass TTY escape sequences - IIRC was <ESC>[K was erase current line, <ESC>[2J was erase from cursor to EOL and <ESC>[9 was toggle between 80/132 column modes.  Fond memories of writing screenfuls of DCL macros... ah, the life that was Digital!  :cool: /ravi

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[PIEBALDconsult]

I didn't do much with deletes, but positioning. Also on VT340s (if I recall correctly) I would open someone else's terminus and scroll a message on the status line. :thumbsup:

[Gary R Wheeler]

Ravi Bhavnani wrote:

Fond memories of writing screenfuls of DCL macros...

Oh man, I'm having flashbacks. My last project on a microVAX was a FORTRAN simulation. The contract stipulated 'pure' FORTRAN-77 code, but I wanted to use some of the VAX FORTRAN features. I wrote a program generator in DCL. It generated 'pure' FORTRAN-77 from the VAX FORTRAN source, creating data access routines, global variable declarations, and so on.

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[Mario Michetti]

With the === A L P H A === processor. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOhhhhhhhhhh.

[Old Ed]

VMS, now there's a walk down memory lane. VMS was an elegantly crafted operating system. Worked with it for 10 years at a great job. VMS, C, good times...

[Snowman58]

Perhaps a more revealing question; Why did you get it???? I have fond memories of using PDP-9's and 10's with paper tape storage, but I can't for the life of me figure out why I would want one today!

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[ckheisler]

I worked for DEC for 17 years. First I programmed in Pascal on a contract, then I did customer support for the VMS operating system for 9 years, moving to support of programming languages (FORTRAN was my main focus), and finally I went back to programming. Did 7 years of development on their automated backup system (in C and C++). I loved VMS...the most secure operating system in the world. Have fun!

[bVagadishnu]

I knew the fellow who owned that plate.

[Ravi Bhavnani]

Oh really?  That happens to be my license plate and I don't know you. /ravi

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[bVagadishnu]

Must be a (past) tense thing. A co-worker named Mike had Massachusetts license plate "VAX-VMS" > 20 years ago. He allowed it to expire which freed it up for the next person to request it. rgrds, [*Edit: not sure if the "-" was on the plate *]

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[Sterling Camden independent consultant]

I used to work in R&D for a software company that was one of DEC's largest OEMs at the time. DEC invited two of us up to their research center in Atlanta to preview the MicroVAX before it was unveiled to the public. At the time it was so much slower than the 750s and 780s that we elected not to sell it.

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[PIEBALDconsult]

A MicroVAX doesn't have an Alpha chip (at least this one doesn't). Alpha came out in 1992.

[PIEBALDconsult]

Because it's there (well, here now). This is just a little one -- desktop-PC-size.

[jsc42]

Put VMS 4.7 on it - predates all the license management.

[CDMTJX]

A coworker named Bill I think had a NH VAXVMS plate a few decades ago. I used to work on layered products for VMS, OSF-1, Tru64 (old DEC stuff)...