[HECnet] LCM+L suspending operations

[Thomas DeBellis]

I'm going to reach out to somebody I know who works there and see what 
he might know beyond the news.  Given the "if" in the notice on the web 
site, viz: "we will spend the months ahead reassessing if, how, and when 
to reopen", things didn't immediately strike me as being overwhelmingly 
hopeful.

That would be a bummer if the KL and XKL machines were to go away.  In 
some alpha versions of my FTP server, I ran what I thought would be 
regression tests on an XKL (at the time, the 2065 was running Tops-10, 
so this wasn't possible).  It turns out that I actually found a a 
situation that the KLH10 micro-engine gets right but that some versions 
of the XLK microcode get wrong.

Briefly, on an XKL-1, you don't want to use any EXTEND based string or 
numeric conversion instructions in a non-zero section as the effective 
address calculations come out wrong and certain random parts of the 
address space get trashed.  Took me awhile to figure that one out...  I 
don't recall whether this was fixed, but I would assume it would have been.

The loss of MRC's 2020's and--more importantly--the data held on them 
and related tapes would be an extremely bitter blow.
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> On 5/27/20 11:15 PM, Gregg Levine wrote:
>
> Hello!
> That part may be closing, but the museum,may survive intact. We just
> don't know. Sometimes even local news does not have all of the facts.
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> Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
> "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
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>> On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 10:53 PM David Cooper <davecoo at marmotking.com> wrote:
>>
>> It’s not coming back.  From the local news, "This means we are winding down both Vulcan Arts + Entertainment and Vulcan Productions by the end of the year."  The museum was part of Vulcan Arts + Entertainment.  Just like the ancient Greek temples that were destroyed by farmers looking for stone to build houses and walls, the computers will be recycled for their gold.  Human nature has not changed and likely never will.  You’ve heard the phrase, “The Earth belongs to the living”.  Apparently true then and true now.
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>>> From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE <owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE> On Behalf Of Keith Halewood
>>> Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2020 2:40 PM
>>> To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
>>> Subject: [HECnet] LCM+L suspending operations
>>>
>>> As some of you may have just heard, LCM+L are suspending operations “for now” due to the effects of the current crisis. We’ll discover what’ll be happening to online access to their systems shortly. It’s a sad day but hopefully not permanently so.
>>>
>>> Keith
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