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                April: 
                VMS V3 ships. | 
            
            
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                April: 
                The VAX-11/730 is the third -- and at the time --
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                May: 
                DIGITAL introduces a range of new personal
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                May: 
                ALL-IN-1, a new concept in integrated
                office software is introduced. | 
            
            
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                November: 
                The Customer Support Center in Colorado
                Springs pilots Remote Fault Isolation Technology
                for software support in the VMS and TOPS support
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                June: 
                Announcement of the RA60 and RA81 disk drives and DIGITAL
                Storage Architecture puts DIGITAL at the
                forefront in storage technology. |