[HECnet] Sort of off-topic, co-locating area 8

[Brett Bump]

On Wed, 23 Jan 2013, Dave McGuire wrote:

On 01/23/2013 06:53 PM, Brett Bump wrote:
If anyone can, YOU can...heck, you were the guy who introduced me to
RSTS, what, 27 or 28 years ago?

That must be a math problem, and those are now in dynamic memory.   I think
I must have gotten rebooted, as I can't count back that far (86 maybe?).

I was a sophomore in high school so that would've been 1985.   Do you
remember my old PDP-11/34a?

Yes, and I remember all the vulgarities that you expelled when you found
out that the 11/23 that you had sold would do 4meg of memory by doing some
minor wirewrapping. ;-)

Well it seems VMS can indeed run on those.   You wanna take the plunge?

Yes, I really should.   I've been telling people for years I've had this
project of jumping on hecnet and it always gets put on the back burner.
Would be nice to put those 3300s to work, but I still think I'll have to
put something else at the gigapop (I don't think they will allow 3300s).

Why wouldn't they?

The gigapop has standardized 7foot racks and I pay for 1/2 a rack. I don't
think I have enough room left in the rack to put something as big as one
of those 3300s (let alone it would be far too deep).   Most likely, I have
enough room to put in an AlphaStation 200 (just for routing purposes).

I see the copy of OpenVMS I have is Alpha V8.3 (which I got years ago).
I'll have to check with Montagar and check on my hobbyist license.   If I
can get that far I may just set it all up connected to a terminal server
and let Dave install it all. ;-) lol

I'd be happy to!   And see your private email.

                            -Dave

While you are at it, you can fix Marge's Ubuntu box (she is on the phone).
I only have to do this about 2 times a year, and it is always because they
moved cables around, and not becuase of the software.   I am always happy
when I can migrate the elderly off of Wanderz and onto something sensible.

Brett