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I remember using one of these in the 1970s at the University of New South Wales school of Electrical Engineering. It looked quite similar to the DEC PDP11 but it had one unusual feature - analog to digital hardware which they were using to do computerised control of analog electronic circuits. --WikiWookie 07:54, 15 May 2007 (UTC)Reply

I worked for VDM as a field service engineer from around 1975-78. Their market at the time was a mixture of science / industrial control applications and small business applications. They offered several high end hardware options like floating point processor and an interesting writable control board that allowed one to define and use their own instruction set at full machine cycle speed. They tried to be all things to all possible customer applications but could not compete with the higher volume lower cost offers from DEC, Data General, etc. Their software options were varied and a couple of OSs that supported either batch and/or real-time applications. There was very little if any 3rd party commercial software offerings. I enjoyed my time with VDM very much but when Univac bought them out in 1978 I went looking else where to work after a year or so. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:FB00:9280:CCCC:C036:F251:11DE (talk) 00:16, 2 April 2022 (UTC)Reply

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