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

Brian Hechinger wonko at 4amlunch.net
Wed Nov 24 02:53:22 PST 2021


On 23/11/21 17:38, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On 11/23/21 12:10 PM, Fred wrote:
>>>  Contrary to an opinion that seems to be circulating around the net 
>>> that it's in my garage or something, LSSM is a real brick-and-mortar 
>>> public 501(c)(3) nonprofit museum, in a non-shared commercial 
>>> storefront building in
>>
>> Not to derail things further, but .... WTF?
>>
>> The folks that think it's in your garage have obviously never visited.
>
>   To be fair, I think it stems from people not learning what I/we have 
> actually done.  For nearly 40 years I've been known as the guy with 
> his house full of PDP-8/PDP-11/VAX/Cray computers.


To be fair, the J90 did take up most of your dining room. :)


>   And we live in a world in which every nerd "has a computer museum", 
> which, more often than not, is a 486 box in a spare bedroom, or just a 
> web page with pictures of old computers.


486, Crays, what's the difference! :-D



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