[HECnet] [offline] a future visit to your museum

[Supratim Sanyal]

Hi Dave,

Obviously, living in Germantown, MD, I am rearing to drive up - but am 
trying to get my ex-boss here too - he lives in Singapore but visits his 
daughter in Princeton.

I worked for Digital in my home country of India and traveled around 
South Asia fixing various industrial process control type installations 
over 1994 - 1996. QCOCAL - my SIMH node on HECnet, was a real node on 
Easynet in Calcutta. Used to be in the "SI" (systems integration) group. 
My boss had been there much longer. I bailed just before Bob Palmer sold 
it to Compaq and went to work in Tokyo.

Will pester you for an appointment some day. I am sure you have 
fascinating stories to tell, going back to phone hacking.

Thanks for what you are doing!

Supratim


On 1/25/2018 19:16, Dave McGuire wrote:
> 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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