I was an admin on a VAX-11/780, the first generation, in the Before Times. Yeah, the basic CPU was 26 or so hex-width Unibus boards about 16"x9". Memory and I

I was an admin on a VAX-11/780, the first generation, in the Before Times. Yeah, the basic CPU was 26 or so hex-width Unibus boards about 16"x9". Memory and I/O was extra. A lot more than 230 TTL chips. They eventually boiled it down to a couple of ASICs so you had a VAX on a single card. But to be fair, the VAX implemented a vast amount of stuff that you wouldn't if you were designing your own TTL CPU.