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Originally posted by 930addict
No backup whatsoever on these things. I've never even seen the user interface for a VAX. My scoutmaster used to work on them before he retired. Maybe I'll play around with it once it's out of service.
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The native user interface was a command shell, with many commands very similar to DOS. In fact, the same guy was a principal architect of VMS and Windows NT.
The later OpenVMS versions had an X-Windows GUI but our machine wouldn't run that - it only had 4MB of RAM and a whopping 300MB hard drive IIRC (which actually was quite huge for its day.) We used VT220/VT320 dumb terminals. The CPU ran at a 1MHz clock speed. They also had cartridge tape drives as well as the 9-track reels. Neither of those actually held much data.