[HECnet] DECnet for Linux

[Gregg Levine]

Hello!
Yikes! I believe that's the system that made a rude noise at me the
day we met, and VCF that year. No not the crowd I hung around with,
and of course yourself, but wow. I'll be there someday.
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."


On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 7:16 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> 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
>
> --
> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
> New Kensington, PA