Wow... just how old was the Vax they were running where you worked...
... probably RM05's - 256mb max capacity
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backups on the huge removable hard disks,so compact (not)roflmao
I've been involved with DEC VAX/VMS since the days of key punch to disk and tape program encoding... COBOL programming days...
but don't remember using "huge removable" hard disks....
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Actually I do remember using some old "removable" disk packs...
Perspex lids, with a big screw type knob on top, that was on a Prime system which was replaced with the first Vax I worked on...
A Microvax II... 16Mb of memory, 5 x 400mb hard disks and a reel tape....
ran a "bureau" accounting service for 16 different transport companies...
Could support 45 users via fixed landline (early ISDN) simultaneously...
1985...
Used a lot of reel type tape devices, then the first 8mm helical scan tapes...think VCR type technology... and then TK50/70 etc the forerunner to DLT tape technology...
all DEC innovations, or innovations of third party manufacturers for the VAX/VMS market... like DSSI... the forerunner to SCSI...
The company must have had a really backward management attitude to technology and technological improvement....
Then again some of the old gear was so absolutely brilliant and reliable that it just never needed updating...
... like the old PDP11 that controlled the robotic sorting on WD & HO Wills conveyers .... been in use for 13 years before I started my contract there.... never stopped... no-one even knew where it was... eventually found it "welded" in behind a baulkhead....one of the old maintenance fitters told me about it lol.....
... guess what they replaced it last year (25 years of faithful service) and the new system apparently fails at least two or three times a week....
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