[ih] What is the origin of the root account?

[jeanjour at comcast.net (John Day)]

Sorry, according to the Wikipedia, The first VAX was sold on October 25, 1977.

Which sounds about right.

We went through most of the line:  a PDP-11 in 1970 later called the 
/20, a /40 for a short time, then a /45 and an LSI-11 about 1975, /70 
and then a VAX.


At 6:32 PM -0400 4/12/13, Miles Fidelman wrote:
>Noel Chiappa wrote:
>>
>>      > I seem to recall that the first VAXen didn't even exist until around
>>      > 1975. :-)
>>
>>Without checking, I think it was somewhat later. MIT got an early one, but
>>that was around 1978.
>
>A little earlier than that.  I graduated in 1975, and remember one 
>arriving a couple of years earlier.  I was taking a lab course, and 
>it showed up one day in the prof's lab.  I think it was Joel Moses, 
>and I seem to recall we were playing with some of those computer 
>driven pogo sticks that were all the rage - though most of what we 
>did in that course had to do with wire wrapping DEC logic boards 
>together (remember when DEC still was in the module business? :-)
>
>Miles