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</head><body><p>Hi All,</p><p><br></p><p>This morning I managed to hook up to HECnet after a great deal of patient help from Bob Armstrong.</p><p>I thought I'd introduce myself to this community and also say thank you all for what you have created.</p><p>My first experience with DEC goes back to the late seventies with paper tape FOCAL on a PDP-11/20, later RT-11 and UCSD Pascal on a PDP-11/34 with an RL02. While at university the undergraduate Computer Science courses were based around Pascal running on the then new brand VAX-11/780. And during my early career in government science everything revolved around MicroVAXen. After entering private industry my first job was at a company that had a 11/730 for accounting but WinNT server and Win95/98 desktops were all the rage for office productivity.</p><p>The DEC stable here has a real MicroVAX 3800 (runs VMS 5.4-3), a core memoried PDP-11/05, and a PDP-11/24. The two PDPs are restoration projects. I also have a small IBM hardware collection and have played with the Hercules S/370 emulation project.</p><p>My connection to HECnet at the moment is with a emulated 3900 running OpenVMS 7.3 using SIMH version 4 with using the Win32 pre-built binary 2020-06-09 and NPCAP 0.9995 on Windows 10.</p><p>I'm much more of a hardware design type person and have never been an admin or indeed a very good programmer, apart perhaps from RCA 1802 and MC6800 assembler. I also have quite a bit of Cisco IOS experience and have participated in networks like DN42 while maintaining various other hobby (amateur radio) and work related networks.</p><p><br></p><p>Regards, John</p><p>ZL4JY Waikanae</p><p>NEW ZEALAND </p></body></html>