[HECnet] My newest toy

[Rob Jarratt]

I have just been logging on to someone else's DS10L today to work on my
DECnet router. It is the first time I have used one of these and it seems
really fast to me. I want one now.....

Regards

Rob

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE]
On Behalf Of Dave McGuire
Sent: 12 January 2013 22:01
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: Re: [HECnet] My newest toy

On 01/12/2013 04:57 PM, Ian McLaughlin wrote:
Schweet!   I didn't know you had two!

No, the second one is the one I'm going to 'come across' in the future
:)   Sorry to raise your hopes.

  Grrrr. ;)

This one came out of an old
sawmill in town a few years ago - I got a phone call saying that they
had heard that there was "some old mainframe crap" getting scrapped at
the sawmill and heard that I was one of those crazy collectors.

  !!
  WTF?   Since when is an Alpha storage array "old", "mainframe", or
"crap"?
I hate stupid people.   But sometimes their stupidity gets thinking people
good, high-end hardware.

By the time I got there, the drive array and some documentation was
all that was left.   It lied around my garage for a year or so, then
spurred me into getting the DS10L to give it something to hook up to.

  Nice.   The Alpha it was originally connected to probably went to a
dealer
for big bucks.

                          -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA