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by actionfromafar 1097 days ago
I had a MicroVAX in my bedroom which booted with a tick-tack-tick-tack going faster and faster culminating in a crescendo where it sounded like the discs synced up or something.

I'd then login to a prompt and type DIR before I turned it off again. I just pulled the power switch, I had no idea how to do a proper shutdown.

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I spooled up my SIMH vax just to find out... the proper command is

  @SYS$SYSTEM:SHUTDOWN