[HECnet] VCF East

[Gregg Levine]

Hello!
Magic word is "Gack!". Now I place you. I asked Dave what was with the
name on the Vax, and he confirmed it was yours. I wondered why it was
named after a second stage booster back from our years of sending
stuff into space, Think of the term, "Atlas-Agena" and you'll get my
reasoning.

Dave was that the one who finally brought up the terminal server?
Oddly enough I have here three Model 90 terminal servers, but they are
the L Plus ones.
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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 9:50 PM, Steve Davidson <steve at davidson.net> wrote:
>
>
> 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