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nekokami · 03-09-2007, 07:39 AM

I think we just got rid of the last MicroVAX at the university where I work last summer. Everyone panicked because finally 1032 went away, as the IT department had been threatening for years....

When I started in the university "machine room," (back when computers had their own special rooms) we still had a card reader! And some of those big "washtub" disk drives with the removable platter stacks, and a bunch of reel-to-reel drives (which I would mount tapes on all night long), and two DEC-10s. (And a bunch of VAXen.)

I remember those days fondly, but I like my current computing equipment better.

03-09-2007, 07:39 AM	#15
nekokami fruminous edugeek Posts: 6,745 Karma: 551260 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Northeast US Device: iPad, eBw 1150	I think we just got rid of the last MicroVAX at the university where I work last summer. Everyone panicked because finally 1032 went away, as the IT department had been threatening for years.... When I started in the university "machine room," (back when computers had their own special rooms) we still had a card reader! And some of those big "washtub" disk drives with the removable platter stacks, and a bunch of reel-to-reel drives (which I would mount tapes on all night long), and two DEC-10s. (And a bunch of VAXen.) I remember those days fondly, but I like my current computing equipment better.