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From: pechter@shell.monmouth.com (Bill/Carolyn Pechter)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Looking for a book on the development of the DEC VAX
Date: 27 Mar 2003 13:16:26 -0500
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In article <b5utrq$h4e$2@bob.news.rcn.net>,  <jmfbahciv@aol.com> wrote:
>In article <b5si3p$2cacgf$1@ID-143435.news.dfncis.de>,
>   "Hans Vlems" <hvlems@iae.nl> wrote:
>>
>>"Rupert Pigott" <roo@dark-try-removing-this-boong.demon.co.uk> schreef in
>>bericht news:1048362508.541050@saucer.planet.gong...

>>The 11/785 was sold around 1985/1986 or so.
>
>That sounds late.  Are you sure?
>
><snip>
>
>/BAH

Absolutely... although I think it started being announced and sold around
'84.  I was installing the things in 84-85 timeframe IIRC.

By 86 the 11/780 and 11/750 were dodos with the 8600/8650 out
and the 11/785 replacing the 11/780 and most 11/780's getting upgraded
in the field to 11/780-5's.

The MicroVaxII's took the 11/750's place and the place of a lot of
11/780's  -- since they were about .9 of an 11/780 and two of them took
a lot less of the power and airconditioning in a room.

The only reason 11/780's and 11/785's and 11/750's existed was in
cluster formations -- since the MicroVaxII's didn't have a CI interface
at the time.

If DEC did one for QBUS there would have been only 86xx's and MicroVax
systems left.  There was an amazing potential for $$$ when DEC decided
not to OEM the MicrovaxII KA620 board to box builders like they
did the PDP11.  That, REALLY REALLY was the beginning of the end for
DEC.

Bill
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