[HECnet] Introduction and two new systems online

[Jeroen Brons]

Hi Lex, 

Greetings from a town nearby (Scherpenzeel) from probably the youngest member (21 YO) :)

Greets 

Jeroen
> Op 6 jun. 2016, om 19:54 heeft Lex van Roon <r3boot at r3blog.nl> het volgende geschreven:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> My name is Lex van Roon, and for quite some time I've been lurking on
> this list as a DEC/VMS enthusiast and today I got my link to HECnet
> working with the help of Johnny.
> 
> Somewhere during the 90s, a high-school classmate of mine gave me a couple of
> copies of Hacktic(*). In there I read about these operating systems with
> weird names like VMS and UNIX, and since I only knew MS based OS's back
> then, I was intrigued. I soon got my first Linux box running under x86,
> and not long thereafter I got my first whitelabel Alpha mainboard, on
> which I happily ran BSD and Linux. After dropping out of school, I went
> to work as a sysadmin in the UNIX world during the end of the dotcom boom,
> and nowadays I'm a DevOps engineer working for a large dutch .com.
> 
> As a hobby, I've been running various Alpha's (and other RISC iron) over
> the years:
> 
> - Whitelabel AXPCI133
> - AS1000 (lots of them)
> - PWS 466au
> - DS10/DS20/DS25
> - ES47
> 
> and since a couple of years, I finally wiped UNIX off my Alpha's and
> installed VMS, and have used them for various things. Mostly replicating
> services I'd normally run under UNIX (dns, ntp, http), but also for
> software development in C and Python(**). In this time, I've discovered
> that it's very helpful to know people who know VMS very well (thnx
> Steven Hoffman), and I am confident enough about my VMS skills
> that I decided to join, since being in a DECnet with my own systems is
> not such an interesting learning experience as working with 'the real
> thing' :)
> 
> For now I'm online with the following two Alpha's:
> 
> REI / 1.540 / AlphaServer DS10 / 466MHz / 1GB ram / 2 x 18GB u2w 10k
> PAI / 1.541 / AlphaServer DS25E / 1GHz / 1GB ram / 6 x 73GB u320 15k
> 
> In the future, I plan/hope to get my VAX 4000/200 connected, but that
> system still needs some TLC before it will operate. Most likely I will
> also spin up some emulated instances of various other DEC operating
> systems in the future, for learning/discovery purposes.
> 
> The systems are connected to a 100mbit FttH uplink, located in Amersfoort,
> The Netherlands and are available 24/7. I have not yet configured any guest
> accounts, but I intend to do this.
> 
> Kind Regards,
> 
> Lex van Roon
> 
> *) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hack-Tic
> **) https://github.com/r3boot/pki
> 
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