[HECnet] VCF East

[Steve Davidson]

On 04/23/2015 09:37 PM, Gregg Levine wrote:
> 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.
> -----
> 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
>>
>>
Greg,

I was the one who went from sleep sitting to sleep standing.  No 
glasses, short hair (compared to both Dave and Brian).  I was working on 
the VAXen and Brian was keeping me focused.  The images were on a thumb 
drive but getting them to the VAX was an exercise to say the least.  
Once they were on AGENA:: (19.11) we were able to get MOM/MOP to do its 
thing.  I must confess that I had to look up on the web no less how to 
configure ISL because neither of us could think straight with all the 
noise.  I will be bringing ear plugs or my noise cancelling headphone 
next year for sure.  :-)

-Steve