[HECnet] Number of nodes online a bit low?

[Sampsa Laine]

Yeah, if anyone has any spare VT180s or VT340s, I'll take those too.

Or DEC Rainbows.

sampsa

On 25 Jan 2015, at 22:31, Robert Jarratt <robert.jarratt at ntlworld.com> wrote:
The VAX780 node in area 5 is my own SIMH instance running on a Raspberry Pi, with the area router being my user mode router that is running on a small server I always keep running. Other nodes will only pop up from time to time, but the Raspberry Pi uses so little power that of course I can keep it running permanently.
  
I agree though, there is always that trepidation when powering something on. Now, if you no longer want that DECstation 5000/240 you only have to let me know   . J
  
Regards
  
Rob
  
  
From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Mark Wickens
Sent: 25 January 2015 20:08
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: Re: [HECnet] Number of nodes online a bit low?
  
Well, I decided to trim the collection of fat over the past year or so. I haven't regretted it. There are still 3100s in the garage that really need to go to the skip - out of 5 of them I couldn't get one to work. The ZX6000 went, and I now have SLAVE (AlphaServer 1000A), BUBBLE (4000/90 with BA356 pack) and ORAC all up and running on simulators on a DL380 G5. BUBBLE is a 4-cpu VAX MP instance. SIMVAX - a straight SIMH instance running on an HP Microserver - has been serving http://hecnet.eu for the past 18 months or so.
  
I do like some real hardware BTW - I'm not a complete heathen, but it's nice to have all that available without having to root through for cables, transceivers etc. etc. and especially nice not having that cringing feeling every time I hit the power switch. Probably most of all however is that I can run some powerful VAX simulators 24/7 without having to worry *too much* about the cost.
  
I stayed away from emulation for a long time, but so far with a bit of perseverance I'm not regretting it.
  
On 25 January 2015 at 19:37, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
On 2015-01-25 20:32, Sampsa Laine wrote:
Civilised? They invented   the freaking alphabet 30 km north of my
apartment.

The current population just tends towards the trigger-happy and
sectarian but it's pretty normal here, aside from the fucking power cuts.

But I love it here - I can go diving in the summer and going skiing
tomorrow.

Besides, where else can I can get a top floor apartment in a good area
with a view of the mountains AND the sea for these kinds of prices?

Also, the REALLY good food is like 70% cheaper than
London/Paris/Dubai/HK etc..
   [...]   And power 20h a day, with glitches, from one source, and 4h a day with glitches from another source... I think I'll pass. :-)
I think I'll keep Beirut, buy a UPS if when I get non-laptop computers.
   UPS? Non-laptop... Well, I'd say that the kind of computers I'm thinking of, the UPS required is rather large... Most UPSes are mostly good for just laptops. ;-)                  Johnny
   Sampsa         On 25 Jan 2015, at 21:18, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se   <mailto:bqt at softjar.se>> wrote:
On 2015-01-25 19:31, Sampsa Laine wrote:
And the worst thing about it - I've got LOADS of room for this thing,
I live alone in 150 sq m flat (well I have a cat, so that's like 1.3
people).

I just don't have the power infrastructure to run it. And NO I am NOT
buying my own diesel generator.
   How about moving back to a civilized country?      Johnny
   On 25 Jan 2015, at 20:13, John Wilson <wilson at dbit.com   <mailto:wilson at dbit.com>> wrote:
From: Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com<mailto:sampsa at mac.com>>
< but >

However

< I really had nowhere to put it >

I could not find sufficient space for such a large object anywhere =
reasonable.

Yeah that's the part that's just line noise.   What are you sitting on
right now?   Couldn't it be a PDP-11 instead?   And do you sleep lying
down?   That space could be put to better use.

John Wilson (whose dining room has an 11/34a and an 11/93 in it, kitchen
has two RK05s, living room has a BA23 with a Mentec CPU, etc. etc. etc.)
  


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Johnny Billquist                           || "I'm on a bus
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