[HECnet] DECnet for Linux

[Erik Olofsen]

Thanks Gregg, I'm very glad that you (or your typewriter?) arranged it!


On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 04:30:29PM -0500, Gregg Levine wrote:
> Hello!
> Indeed. I got there in time for your "How to wrap a computer for
> mailing" session..  And naturally by the time you were looking for me,
> I had managed to reach the point where I'd implode if I didn't return
> here.
> 
> Then when you returned, they'd moved those events to the Friday, and I
> was able to properly explore things. Where you are? RSN.  As for Erik
> building via Slackware, I am pleased. I also arranged that.
> 
> Now that I think about it, that sound it made was the teletypewriter
> responding.......
> -----
> Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
> "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 1:22 AM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
> >
> >   The 11/70?  Yes, that's the one that I had at VCF-E.
> >
> >   Amusingly, I remember meeting you, you had introduced yourself as
> > Gregg, but I had not made the connection that you were THE Gregg until a
> > few hours later, when I couldn't find you! ;)
> >
> >   I do hope you can come out to visit someday.
> >
> >              -Dave
> >
> > On 01/25/2018 10:31 PM, Gregg Levine wrote:
> >> 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.
> >> -----
> >> 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
> >
> >
> > --
> > Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
> > New Kensington, PA