[HECnet] Number of nodes online a bit low?

[Mark Wickens]

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