[HECnet] Number of nodes online a bit low?

[Robert Jarratt]

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.)
  
      --   Johnny Billquist                           || "I'm on a bus                                                     ||   on a psychedelic trip   email:bqt at softjar.se <mailto:bqt at softjar.se>                  ||   Reading   murder books   pdp is alive!                                ||   tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
  
      --    Johnny Billquist                           || "I'm on a bus                                                      ||   on a psychedelic trip   email: bqt at softjar.se                    ||   Reading murder books   pdp is alive!                                ||   tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol