Wandering Down Memory Lane...
More than a few years ago, my wife and I were living in our first two-bedroom apartment. I got a call from my old Campus Computing superviosr who was in the process of upgrading the St. John's University student computing environment to a new VAX system. He wanted to know if I wanted the old VAX 11/785 computer they had. Yes, the VAX which was about the size of two side-slide file cabinets, needed an external cabinet about the size of a two-drawer file cabinet for the operating system disk and the storage disk, the big free-standing tape drive, and the nearly-as-big max-bus cabinet. Yup, the one I helped to connect to the then-new TOMUS system that networked the library card-catalog systems between my university and the others in the MIAC conference that St. John's belonged to - all of which were small private colleges in the upper midwest, most in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois, at the time. And my wife said I had to say NO. Talk about disapp...