Hello from Ohio!

[Keyways]

I've been using DEC Equipment daily since my first PDP-11/02 system in the early 1980's in college. Boy I miss the TU58 boot device! Later I started teaching at the college and by then had 11/23, 11/23+, and 11/73 systems running RT-11 and TSX+.
I accepted a research scientist position in the Kodak Research Labs where I used the then new wonderful MicroVAX II !
Later moving to a research position in Ohio at the Mead Corporation, we used 11/73s and a collection of MicroVAX and VAXStations for data collection and reduction.

Sadly a reduction in force left 90% of our division, myself included, looking for work. That's when I decided to go full time selling DEC equipment, which I still do to this day.

I'm a daily user of RT-11 and OpenVMS so I'm sure I'll find posts I can assist with.

I'm happy to be here.

Mitch Miller

 

[pdevine]

Welcome Mitch! I first learned to code in college on a MicroVAX.

 

[djg]

Boy I miss the TU58 boot device!

Haven't seen too many people looking back fondly about that drive. Much more for DECtapes. Why did you like it? I did use those little cartridges on a Tektronix logic analyzer back in the day and they were fine for that purpose.

 

[Keyways]

Haven't seen too many people looking back fondly about that drive. Much more for DECtapes. Why did you like it? I did use those little cartridges on a Tektronix logic analyzer back in the day and they were fine for that purpose.

I had never seen a tape drive treated like a block addressable floppy before. The comment was meant to be humorous to a degree. I loved the sound of the TU58 booting up RT-11 the same way I loved the teletype sounds coming from the newpaper I worked at in the 1970s.

I was happy when TU58s were not our only boot media. DEC donated 11/02 cpu, tu58 drives, and mxv11-ac to us. It was a great starting point and we leaned a lot. Having a hard drive was much nicer though!

 

[seaken]

Hello @Keyways , welcome. I didn't know DEC equipment was still being sold. But I'm not very tuned in to the DEC world. I tend to follow more of the IBM PC and MS-DOS stuff since that is what I have most of in my collection.

Seaken

 

[Keyways]

Hello @Keyways , welcome. I didn't know DEC equipment was still being sold. But I'm not very tuned in to the DEC world. I tend to follow more of the IBM PC and MS-DOS stuff since that is what I have most of in my collection.

There are still a bunch of dealers that sell DEC, and HP still sells and supports some DEC products under their logo. The market is way bigger now than I would have guessed when Compaq bought Digital back in 1995.

 

[seaken]

Well, that makes perfect sense. I was aware of the track from DEC through Compaq then HP. I just wasn't aware they were still using the DEC brand. Now I'm glad I know that. Thanks for updating me.

Seaken