[HECnet] DECnet for Linux

[Dave McGuire]

On 01/25/2018 07:11 PM, Supratim Sanyal wrote:
>>>>    I keep an Ubuntu 12.10 VM running at the museum to use as a hop-off
>>>> point and file transfer system.  It sure would be nice to not have to do
>>>> that. :)
>>> Easy. Set up an RSX system instead. Then you can transport files between
>>> DECnet and TCP/IP easily, as well as send/receive mail, and run
>>> interactive terminal sessions, and more... :-)
>>   There are many RSX systems here.  I think we're over a dozen now,
>> between the museum and the systems in my home/work building around the
>> corner.  But we usually don't leave PDP-11s up and running all the time.
>
> Here's Dave booting one up just shy of four hours away:
> http://triblive.com/local/valleynewsdispatch/12104848-74/new-kensington-museum-preserves-relics-of-computing-revolution

  Hey, I remember that interview!  That was a fun day.  Matt, the
journalist, has brought many friends to tour the museum since then.

  Not exactly a flattering angle on me in that pic, but I'll take what I
can get. B-)

             -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA