[HECnet] Hello from New Zealand

[Johnny Billquist]

John, very cool to see you green on the map as well.
(http://akdesign.dyndns.org:8080/map in case someone might have missed it)

   Johnny

On 2020-07-30 22:25, jy at xtra.co.nz wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> 
> This morning I managed to hook up to HECnet after a great deal of 
> patient help from Bob Armstrong.
> 
> I thought I'd introduce myself to this community and also say thank you 
> all for what you have created.
> 
> My first experience with DEC goes back to the late seventies with paper 
> tape FOCAL on a PDP-11/20, later RT-11 and UCSD Pascal on a PDP-11/34 
> with an RL02.  While at university the undergraduate Computer Science 
> courses were based around Pascal running on the then new brand 
> VAX-11/780. And during my early career in government science everything 
> revolved around MicroVAXen. After entering private industry my first job 
> was at a company that had a 11/730 for accounting but WinNT server and 
> Win95/98 desktops were all the rage for office productivity.
> 
> The DEC stable here has a real MicroVAX 3800 (runs VMS 5.4-3), a core 
> memoried PDP-11/05, and a PDP-11/24. The two PDPs are restoration 
> projects.  I also have a small IBM hardware collection and have played 
> with the Hercules S/370 emulation project.
> 
> My connection to HECnet at the moment is with a emulated 3900 running 
> OpenVMS 7.3 using SIMH version 4 with using the Win32 pre-built binary 
> 2020-06-09 and NPCAP 0.9995 on Windows 10.
> 
> I'm much more of a hardware design type person and have never been an 
> admin or indeed a very good programmer, apart perhaps from RCA 1802 and 
> MC6800 assembler.  I also have quite a bit of Cisco IOS experience and 
> have participated in networks like DN42 while maintaining various other 
> hobby (amateur radio) and work related networks.
> 
> 
> Regards, John
> 
> ZL4JY Waikanae
> 
> NEW ZEALAND
> 

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Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
                                   ||  on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se             ||  Reading murder books
pdp is alive!                     ||  tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol