VMS

since unknown year (earliest usage recorded on this site was 1980)

aka VAX/VMS or OpenVMS

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sceptreofjudah

jma

terrycojones

jancona

BitWise

patricktaylor

rah

jorjun

tpherndon

simonf

trey

tlesher

jeffself

r1chardj0n3s

ntoll

otherchirps

whaley

coderanger

sceptreofjudah - 9 years

jma - 43 years

terrycojones - 2 years

jancona - 10 years

BitWise - 1 years

patricktaylor - 3 years

rah - 3 years

jorjun - 2 years

tpherndon - 9 years

simonf - 8 years

trey - 15 years

tlesher - 2 years

jeffself - 2 years

r1chardj0n3s - 1 years

ntoll - 4 years

otherchirps - 3 years

whaley - 4 years

coderanger - 4 years

1980–1988

1982–

1984–1985

1985–1994

Starting with MicroVMS on a MicroVAX II

BitWise

1986

Renamed all the commands to make it look like UNIX.

patricktaylor

1987–1989

First use of email while working on my degree at uni

rah

1988–1990

Hoovered stuff out of a VAX, shoved it into Excel, made pretty reports for management...

jorjun

1989–1990

Just got in at the end of the wave, by joining a Polytechnic course in computer studies. Biggest memory was email. Yep there was an email bonanza going on between young people that was as not as wild as facebook is today but similar :p

tpherndon

1989–1997

First exposure at college, but I later worked on a system at a hospital in 96-97.

trey

1990–2004

Tennessee Technological University

simonf

1990–1997

tlesher

1990–1991

jeffself

1992–1993

First exposure to a "real" multi-user, multitasking OS. Wish I had gotten more into it, but I was drinking the GUI kool-aid at that time.

r1chardj0n3s

1993

Only briefly at university, thankfully.

ntoll

1994–1997

Used whilst at Birkbeck College in London University. I should have been studying philosophy but spent most of my time plugged into a VAX ;-)

otherchirps

2000–2002

whaley

2002–2005

used at university

coderanger

2005–2008

Learned on SIMH for fun, then bought an old VAXStation to play with.

abcoates

drakkos

digitaljhelms