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The MicroVax that Atari Games used during the 80's.
 

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Wow I love seeing old stuff like this from these companies, thanks for sharing. Any idea what this was used for specifically?
 
*ED tries to act like he knows what a Microvax is*

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waiting 4+ hours for code to compile
while hoping you didn't put a semi-colon
in the wrong place...
 
These are mentioned in several Atari in house documents by developers so I'm certain it is some sort of development tool. Isn't there a game called Return to Vax? This must be it
 
VAX was a mainframe computer made by DEC. This was the machine that Atari's programmers used to develop the software for their games.
 
I still remember getting my first VT420. Ah duel sessions.

I remember wearing an anti static strap and unboxing a Brand new VT100. Dishwasher sizer hard drive packs days.
Loud and fast printronics band printers..
A ream of paper in 45 minutes.
Clean rooms day with huge amount of cables running under the floor. :)
 
I remember wearing an anti static strap and unboxing a Brand new VT100. Dishwasher sizer hard drive packs days.
Loud and fast printronics band printers..
A ream of paper in 45 minutes.
Clean rooms day with huge amount of cables running under the floor. :)

Man I remember those days. Changing the ribbons on the Printronix was a PITA.
 
I used to repair those printers. I had locations in DC that had six or eight of of them sitting in a room with a full time person in the room just to keep feeding them paper. Surprisingly they weren't bad at all to work on. The cooling fans were the only real common failure point.

Man I remember those days. Changing the ribbons on the Printronix was a PITA.
 
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