[HECnet] Hi...

[Mark Wickens]

Welcome back Mark

I have to say that I've generally been ignoring my dec kit since dec legacy. My retrochallenge last month wasn't dec related and didn't amount to much. I did get a PidP8 kit which I need to get a Rasperry pi 2 for, and I bought an FPGA board on which I've installed a PDP/11 emulator (is the right terminology when implemented in hardware?) Regardless there is a pattern of buying stuff then not really using it. Not enough time in the day - the usual story!

Regards, Mark

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> On 27 Aug 2015, at 09:34, Mark Benson <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Well, after a long absence due to life being what life is sometimes, I'm now in my own apartment with my own Broadband line. Alas I'm still on a dynamic IP. I wondered if anyone had made any progress with allowing us wandering souls to connect to HECnet.
> 
> I aim to renew my VMS Hobbyist licenses (hopefully that still works? Did it move to VMSsoftware or is HP still doing it?) and get my VAXstation up and running as well as a couple of RPi's running an older VAX sim with VMS and PDP-11 sim RSX-11M Plus. I may also dabble in using Tru64 on my Alpha, if I can dig out some bigger disks for it.
> 
> Hoping I can get back into DEC as it's about the only esoteric hardware I have left these days!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
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> Mark @ DECtec.info
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