[HECnet] Support Update [Was: *** Very important information ***]

[Pontus Pihlgren]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 08:21:15AM -0800, Robert Armstrong wrote:
> >Pontus Pihlgren <pontus at Update.UU.SE> wrote:
> >Thank you, it is very much apprechiated. 
> 
>   How do you join the Update club?  Is membership limited to Sweden?  What
> do you guys do?  Do you have a museum?

Instruction on how to join can be found here: 

https://www.update.uu.se/en/blimedlem/

Payment might be the tricky part, but we have a paypal account, so 
contact the board and we will sort it out.

Anyone can join, this has changed recently, it used to be reserved for 
students and staff att Uppsala University. We are about 80-100 members 
at the moment but the number has been steadily increasing.

What we do? We have the old computers: VAX 8650, PDP-11/70, DECSYSTEM 
2060, PDP-12, PDP-8, SUN, NeXT, IBM, SGI and the list goes on. Lots of 
peripherals and documentation.

The bigger machines will go in storage for the forseable future but we 
hope to revive them and show them off.

In the meantime we will focus on the smaller ones: PDP-11/05, PDP-12, 
Symbolics, various micros.

We also try to arrange a lecture every month that we broadcast online. 
When we can we exhibit our collection locally or at vintage computer 
festivals.

Up until now we have served our FTP, mailing lists, HECnet and other 
services. We want to continue doing so but the immediate future is 
uncertain, mostly it looks like we are loosing the domain and that the 
new space has limited connectivity. But we are working on it :)

So, please join and I hope we can meet in the future, online or 
otherwise :)

Regards,
Pontus.