[HECnet] VCF East

[Gregg Levine]

Hello!
Holy Mackerel. Steve, I was there, and saw that island of Dec in a
world of stuff. (Well one of many) . Which of the two were you again?
I met the fellow who goes by the handle of Vaxman, but I'm guessing
that you were the other fellow I spoke to who confirmed that
everything was working after a fashion.

I found the sequence of events concerning the terminal server as
interesting. In fact as Dave will confirm, the VLC was the one who
provided the boot sequence for the server.

Dave told me what was going on as shown on the terminal screen I sat
by, and then I said to one person, that it was complaining that it
need certain files to do that, and the two PDP-11s were telling to
"Fribble off! We don't have what you need." And I used an interesting
term, when I inadvertently used a not-so nice word, and it was "Pardon
my Andorian." where some of us would use, "Pardon my French.".

I was the one wearing the leather jacket, and a name tag as "Doctor
John Smith", and that I'd answer to "Doctor Who".

In fact I actually did have fun.

Cory as I said before, you missed a heck of a good time there.

Next year, we'll need to do it again, and I'll spend more time, and
perhaps contribute something to it.
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."


On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 9:17 PM, Steve Davidson <steve at davidson.net> wrote:
> All,
>
> For those who did not attend VCF East you missed a great time!  On Saturday,
> the keynote speaker was none other than Brian Kernighan. You really missed a
> treat - right Dave!
>
> Next year, I plan to bring even more stuff (not nearly as much as Dave did)
> but more than this year.  Dave's island of equipment included the following:
>
> PDP-8
> PDP-11/34
> PDP-11/44
> DECserver-200
> multiple terminals
> I'm sure I have forgotten something...
>
> I added:
>
> VAXstation 4000/60
> DEChub-90 backplane with a DECserver-90TL and a 16-port DEChub
> VT320
> a gateway (actually bridge) machine to connect to HECnet only the link was
> pathetic
>
> Brian (aka VAXman) added:
>
> VAXstation 4000/30 (aka VLC)
>
> In addition to the "island" Dave had other "exhibits" that I will defer to
> Dave for discussion.
>
> Next year we NEED more stuff!  This is the official challenge to anyone on
> the East coast.  We want to see many more of you.  If is is DEC it is
> needed.
>
> I would also like to personally add my thanks to Dave and Brian for making
> this such a treat.  Dave is nuts (in a good way) and very generous.  Brian
> was there for me when my brain could not content with the sheer volume of
> noise - helping me to configure the DECservers and dealing with my fat
> fingering the keyboard and the license management facility (LMF).   For a
> while we were Frick and Frack but we managed to get it together.  Thanks
> guys!
>
> -Steve
>
>