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Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation

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On Apr 22, 2:09 pm, Paul Sture <paul.nos...@sture.ch> wrote:
> In article <xndsp.53114$rF.43...@newsfe12.ams2>,
>
>  ChrisQ <m...@devnull.com> wrote:
> > You are right about the Dec Direct catalogs though. Well illustrated and
> > good descriptions, though some of the prices in europe were eyewatering
> > :-). I remember seeing a Dec Direct catalog page showing a dec cabinet,
> > 3 ra60's high, ready for connection, at a price of 66,000 (Yes,
> > thousands). Eeek :-). A tad expensive for ~600 Mbytes of storage, but
> > those were the days.
>
> I remember being told what an extension cabinet to our first PDP cost,
> and having worked in a metal bashing shop during student holidays
> thinking that my ex-employers could give them serious competition.  This
> of course is what a lot of OEMs did in the 1970s and 80s.
>
> --
> Paul Sture

"a lot of OEMs did [reboxing etc] in the 1970s and 80s."

One of them would be Systime, who I had the pleasure of visiting in
Leeds when my then employer was looking at buying their first VAX (in
the days of the 780->785 transition). There's probably a book for
someone to write about what went on between DEC, Systime, the UK
government and the US government; I had no idea at the time, and still
don't really know what to believe.. Work eventually bought genuine
DEC, by which time I'd moved elsewhere.

Eventually after Systime departed the Millshaw Park building, First
Direct moved in (the same First Direct referred to in another recent
post where you mentioned Cellnet).

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  Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation ChrisQ <meru@devnull.com> - 2011-04-19 12:58 +0100
    Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm@telia.com> - 2011-04-19 14:00 +0200
    Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation "John Reagan" <johnrreagan@earthlink.net> - 2011-04-19 08:42 -0400
      Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation ChrisQ <meru@devnull.com> - 2011-04-19 16:55 +0100
        Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation billg999@cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) - 2011-04-19 16:07 +0000
          Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation urbancamo <mark@wickensonline.co.uk> - 2011-04-19 12:54 -0700
            Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation ChrisQ <meru@devnull.com> - 2011-04-19 22:27 +0100
              Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation John Wallace <johnwallace4@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-04-19 15:29 -0700
                Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation Paul Sture <paul.nospam@sture.ch> - 2011-04-20 08:14 +0200
                Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation ChrisQ <meru@devnull.com> - 2011-04-22 12:11 +0100
                Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation Paul Sture <paul.nospam@sture.ch> - 2011-04-22 15:09 +0200
                Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation John Wallace <johnwallace4@yahoo.co.uk> - 2011-04-23 03:32 -0700
                Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation Paul Sture <paul.nospam@sture.ch> - 2011-04-25 11:07 +0200
              Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation Hans Bachner <Hans@Bachner.priv.at> - 2011-04-19 23:55 +0000
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        Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation Paul Sture <paul.nospam@sture.ch> - 2011-04-24 07:24 +0200
          Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88@comcast.net> - 2011-04-24 09:20 -0400
            Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2011-04-24 09:49 -0700
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                Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2011-04-25 10:58 -0700
                Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) - 2011-04-25 15:25 -0500
                Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) - 2011-04-25 20:54 +0000
                Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) - 2011-04-25 21:25 +0000
                Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2011-04-26 04:59 +0000
                Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2011-04-26 10:11 -0400
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                Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) - 2011-04-25 16:01 +0000
                Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2011-04-25 11:03 -0700
                Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) - 2011-04-25 21:29 +0000
                Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2011-04-25 23:40 -0700
                Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) - 2011-04-28 00:34 +0000
                Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2011-04-27 20:42 -0700
                Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation MetaEd <metaed@gmail.com> - 2011-04-26 08:19 -0700
                Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2011-04-26 09:46 -0700
                Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation MetaEd <metaed@gmail.com> - 2011-04-27 12:19 -0700
                Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation legalize+jeeves@mail.xmission.com (Richard) - 2011-04-28 00:24 +0000
                Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88@comcast.net> - 2011-04-25 08:02 -0400
              Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation Paul Sture <paul.nospam@sture.ch> - 2011-04-25 10:53 +0200
          Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation koehler@eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) - 2011-04-25 08:14 -0500
            Re: Software used for diagrams in DEC documentation Paul Sture <paul.nospam@sture.ch> - 2011-04-25 23:13 +0200
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