[HECnet] Hello from New Zealand

[jy at xtra.co.nz]

Thank you Jonny for your role in bringing this amazing network together!

> On 31 July 2020 at 21:57 Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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
> > 
> 
> -- 
> 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