[HECnet] Humour - Unix Haters Guide now up on CHIMPY:: !

[Joe Ferraro]

Nah. close... Louisville. 

Unfortunately (or, fortunately if you are my wife) it's not "my" gear unless I get authorization (gate pass). I have a few smaller vaxes and pdp. If I get a chance I may take a walk around and see if anything small is sitting around. I'm not sure AnY DEC hardware will ship for less than a small fortune. 



On Oct 3, 2013, at 22:30, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:

On Fri, 4 Oct 2013, Joe Ferraro wrote:

Yeah I may. I don't really have much o a place for it. A year or two ago I was walking around through old datacenters on site and found much of a buried 11/780. I wiped off the broken flourscent bulbs that were laying on top of it, petted it in a joking amber (well, mostly jokingly) and left the room. Not sure if it was scrapped or is still there.

Anyhow I did cart off a micro pdp 11/87 (?!?) that looked like it had never been powered on (racked with about 20 others). Got a gate pass for it but never brought it home hoping id soon be able to find a pdp / Vax implementation on FPGA soon and forgo the storage and power (fire hazard?!?).

I'm assuming you're not in Ohio else i'd be interested in some of your old gear. ;)



On Oct 3, 2013, at 22:12, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:


Grab the hardware!!

On 10/03/2013 10:00 PM, Joe Ferraro wrote:
We just turned off our last VAX this month. Was replaced with none other
than a Linux VM.

(We still have a few left, but none left at my plant).



On Oct 2, 2013, at 15:34, Tony Blews <tonyblews at gmail.com
<mailto:tonyblews at gmail.com>> wrote:

Fantastic. I remember reading that a long long time ago, just when we
were phasing the VMS machines and terminals out in favour of Ultrix
DECstations and VAXstations.

On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com
<mailto:sampsa at mac.com>> wrote:

  This book is hilarious, and can be copied from CHIMPY::UGH.PDF
  over HECnet.

  sampsa


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