Digital Equipment

This new equipment was added in 12/1980:

1 Digital Equipment Corp. 11/780 processor with 4 M bytes of main memory: 1 9 track 1/2 " tape drive 1600 bpi; 2 RM03 disk drives for a total of 134 MBytes; 3 RP06 disk drives for a total of 528 MBytes; 2 600 lpm printers; 1 600 cpm reader; OS: VMS 2.1

This new equipment was added in 10/1981:

3 DD11 disk drives replaced the 3 RP06 drives for a total of 528 MB: OS: VMS 2.3

OS: VMS 2.4 3/1982

OS: VMS 2.5 6/1982

OS: VMS 3.0 8/1982

OS: VMS 3.1 7/1983

This hardware was added during the summer of 1983:
4 VAX 11/780s

In the summer of 1985 the University furnished me this hardware:: DEC Rainbow 8086/8080 Micro Computer; 2 5 1/4" Floppy drives; OS: CPM

A program that I did for the Rainbow in 1986 using C was a QED editor (in core Quick EDitor) like the QED editor on the Honeywell system that came from the University of Waterloo. It was necessary because all of the Rainbow editors used the Rainbow's console and could not be used remotely.

Another program I did for the Rainbow in 1986 using C was a remote serial port login interface so that the Rainbow could be logged in to from a serial port and hence with a dialin line. This allowed home use of the Rainbow via a dialin terminal.

One program that I developed for the VMS system in May of 1986 was a server that allowed Macintosh users to query the VMS system to see if they had any new mail. Users who only logged on to the VAX to read their mail could run the mac client DA called MoniMail (which I also did on the mac) which periodicly contacted the server using appletalk to see if they had any new mail.

This hardware was adding during the fall of 1985:: 3 VAX 11/750s; OS: VMS

During the fall of 1985, ethernet came to UH to support DECnet.

This hardware was added during March of 1986:: 3 11/70s memory was upgraded to 16M

This hardware was added during the spring of 1986:: The 3 11/750s & 1 11/780 were VaxClustered in the Engineering Bldg. These machines were named UHVAX6-9.

In 1986 TexNet came to UH. It is a DECnet based network

In April of 1987 the following hardware was added:: 1 new DEC 8500 was clustered with 2 of the existing 11/780s Its node name was "George" and this was the start of the "Jetson" cluster

By the fall of 1987, Computing consisted of the following machines:

The Academic Cluster:: UHVAX1-3 11/780s VMS; GEORGE 8500 VMS
The Engineering Cluster:: UHVAX6-9 11/750 VMS
The Research & Business machine:: UHUPVM1 AS9000N VM/SP-CMS
The Central Site: uhnix1-2 AT&T 3B20s unix
The Administrative machines:: ABACUS 11/780 VMS; PROVER, UHONE 8500 VMS; UHVAX4-5 11/780 VMS; HIS Honeywell DPS8/70 GCOS3
Various Micro clusters of Macs, DEC PCs & PCs
Servers:: GIMME Micro VAX with optical disk with most of DEC's software for downloading

In the fall of 1987 the following hardware was changed:: A DEC 8974 (4 8700s) replaced the 11/780s in the Administrative Vax Cluster; ABACUS was moved from the Administrative Cluster to the Academic Jetson Cluster

In October of 1987, DEC servers and ethernet began to replace the Sytek network.

In July of 1988 uhvax2-3,6-9 were replaced by 2 8550s named Jane and Elroy. These machines are part of the Academic Jetson Vax Cluster

OS: VMS 5.1 was installed on Jetson in the spring of 1989.

In the spring of 1990 uhvax1 was replaced by a VAX 3100 named Judy.: These machines are part of the Academic Jetson Vax Cluster.; Judy was added to run AlisaShare, DI3000 and the JNET software (BITNET on the VAXs).

OS: VMS 5.2 was installed on Jetson in the spring of 1990.

In the fall of 1990, the following DEC equipment replaced the 2 3b20s uhnix1 & 2: Dec system 5820 with 64MB; 4.8 GB of RA90 disks; 1 6250 BPI TU81 tape drive; OS:Ultrix

This machine was named "Menudo"

Another program I did in October of 1990 for VMS was a program to read Honeywell print tapes and convert them to print under VMS. It had to convert the character set from BCD to ASCII and also crack the Honeywell green words (block and record control words).

OS: Ultrix 4.2 was installed on menudo in the summer of 1991

In January of 1992 the VAX 3100 named JUDY was renamed ORACLE and the following new hardware was named JUDY.: DEC VAX 4000 model 500; The ORACLE machine, a VAX 8200 was removed from service.

In the summer of 1992 the VAX 3100 named ORACLE was renamed JUDY and the new hardware which was named JUDY (VAX 4000) was renamed ROSIE.

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