The Dec/Compaq Turbo Laser 6 AlphaServer KN7CH Processor

> What I think is the only 1U VAX in the world

? Is that a custom job where you stuffed the guts in a smaller case?

http://lilith.zia.io

That's amazing!

So I was forced to change the table layout and main screen to hold three rows of history for each customer, and the flower society ladies would laboriously retype the information as needed to add a new row. As in manually copy row two to row three, copy row one to row two, replace information in row one. Whatever was previously in row three was just lost. But they were happy because customers only got updated once a year or so and printing newsletter labels every month was so much faster than using a Selectric.

I guess I learned early on giving the customer what they want is defined by them, not by you.

The constant drumbeat of 'is Unix dead ?' and similar FUD hurt their image and elevated Microsoft's.

Yet over 25 years later, Windows Server is only marginally better than NT 3.51 and Linux/Unix philosophy is still dominant on internet facing servers.

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DEC used a similar way of mounting the heatsinks - those two screws - in VAXstation 4000, and it didn’t even need a CPU fan.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Inside_a_DEC_AlphaSe...