02-02-2021, 06:18 PM
raz wrote:
[quote=MrNoBody]
[quote=Buck]
Nobody mentioned a DEC10 yet.
aka PDP-10. Big Brother used hundreds of them back in the day.
ARPANET had loads of DEC mainframes on its network.
We retired the last working DEC20 (essentially two DEC10s) just before we closed the old office. IIRC, DEC gave us plenty of incentives to make the switch. That must have been 1989 or so.
Yeah, by the mid-80s DEC was really trying hard to get everyone off DEC10/20 and onto VAX computers. The computer service I worked for at the university from '84 to 2005 was heavily DEC until the mid-90s, but we only had VAX and then Alpha from them. The machine room had been originally been created - raised floor, AC, etc - in the '60s to house a PDP-1. That went away sometime in the '70s and the space converted to offices. Early in the '80s it was converted back to house computers, they added additional AC. When I started they had several VAX 11/780s, an IBM 4341 for CAD/CAM, a ComputerVision computer, peripherals, and some other computers I am forgetting.