Yeah I may. I don't really have much o a place for it. A year or two ago I was walking around through old datacenters on site and found much of a buried 11/780. I wiped off the broken flourscent bulbs that were laying on top of it, petted it in a joking amber (well, mostly jokingly) and left the room. Not sure if it was scrapped or is still there.
Anyhow I did cart off a micro pdp 11/87 (?!?) that looked like it had never been powered on (racked with about 20 others). Got a gate pass for it but never brought it home hoping id soon be able to find a pdp / Vax implementation on FPGA soon and forgo the storage and power (fire hazard?!?).
On Oct 3, 2013, at 22:12, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
Grab the hardware!!
On 10/03/2013 10:00 PM, Joe Ferraro wrote:
We just turned off our last VAX this month. Was replaced with none other
than a Linux VM.
(We still have a few left, but none left at my plant).
On Oct 2, 2013, at 15:34, Tony Blews <tonyblews at gmail.com
<mailto:tonyblews at gmail.com>> wrote:
Fantastic. I remember reading that a long long time ago, just when we
were phasing the VMS machines and terminals out in favour of Ultrix
DECstations and VAXstations.
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com
<mailto:sampsa at mac.com>> wrote:
This book is hilarious, and can be copied from CHIMPY::UGH.PDF
over HECnet.
sampsa
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Hello!
Very funny.
How about hardware that's discussed on a different list? It runs
software that's almost friendly. It also runs software that
communicates in "GRONK!" sounds. And it handles our credit cards
poorly using specific software that's eats up time on the big
box.......
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 10:21 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
On Fri, 4 Oct 2013, Gregg Levine wrote:
Hello!
Umf! And "GACK!!!", Prior to the Pi I did try Debian. It didn't like
me. Now? We agree on somethings.
I normally prefer Slackware for stuff.
By the way, you guys will never guess what's running about 75 Percent
of the worlds' banking. And that almost includes hardware.
Lying and cheating Suits that make more in a day than I'll see in 20 years?
-----
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 10:16 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com>
wrote:
On 10/03/2013 10:14 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
I'm not saying I hate linux for servers...I just hate RHEL and Red Hat
as a company. ;)
Oh ok. I'll back you on that point. (though they were nice enough to
give some very fine hardware a few years ago...)
Remember, you go out of your way to break things...that sorta
disqualifies you from complaining that things are broken. ;)
True. YUM is an more just braindead than it is broken.
I can agree with that. One just can't get much better than "apt-get".
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
--
Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
On Fri, 4 Oct 2013, Gregg Levine wrote:
Hello!
Umf! And "GACK!!!", Prior to the Pi I did try Debian. It didn't like
me. Now? We agree on somethings.
I normally prefer Slackware for stuff.
By the way, you guys will never guess what's running about 75 Percent
of the worlds' banking. And that almost includes hardware.
Lying and cheating Suits that make more in a day than I'll see in 20 years?
-----
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 10:16 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 10/03/2013 10:14 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
I'm not saying I hate linux for servers...I just hate RHEL and Red Hat
as a company. ;)
Oh ok. I'll back you on that point. (though they were nice enough to
give some very fine hardware a few years ago...)
Remember, you go out of your way to break things...that sorta
disqualifies you from complaining that things are broken. ;)
True. YUM is an more just braindead than it is broken.
I can agree with that. One just can't get much better than "apt-get".
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
--
Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
On Fri, 4 Oct 2013, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 10/03/2013 10:14 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
I'm not saying I hate linux for servers...I just hate RHEL and Red Hat
as a company. ;)
Oh ok. I'll back you on that point. (though they were nice enough to
give some very fine hardware a few years ago...)
How much junk mail do they send after giving the hardware? ;)
Remember, you go out of your way to break things...that sorta
disqualifies you from complaining that things are broken. ;)
True. YUM is an more just braindead than it is broken.
I can agree with that. One just can't get much better than "apt-get".
I'd agree. While apt-get isn't my favourite of the package managers (does it support delta package updates yet?) I willl certainly prefer it to yum. (You should poke at alpine's APK if you like apt-get)
-Dave
--
Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
Hello!
Umf! And "GACK!!!", Prior to the Pi I did try Debian. It didn't like
me. Now? We agree on somethings.
I normally prefer Slackware for stuff.
By the way, you guys will never guess what's running about 75 Percent
of the worlds' banking. And that almost includes hardware.
-----
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 10:16 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 10/03/2013 10:14 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
I'm not saying I hate linux for servers...I just hate RHEL and Red Hat
as a company. ;)
Oh ok. I'll back you on that point. (though they were nice enough to
give some very fine hardware a few years ago...)
Remember, you go out of your way to break things...that sorta
disqualifies you from complaining that things are broken. ;)
True. YUM is an more just braindead than it is broken.
I can agree with that. One just can't get much better than "apt-get".
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Get me an address!
On 10/03/2013 10:15 PM, Gregg Levine wrote:
Hello!
No you do it.
-----
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
Grab the hardware!!
On 10/03/2013 10:00 PM, Joe Ferraro wrote:
We just turned off our last VAX this month. Was replaced with none other
than a Linux VM.
(We still have a few left, but none left at my plant).
On Oct 2, 2013, at 15:34, Tony Blews <tonyblews at gmail.com
<mailto:tonyblews at gmail.com>> wrote:
Fantastic. I remember reading that a long long time ago, just when we
were phasing the VMS machines and terminals out in favour of Ultrix
DECstations and VAXstations.
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com
<mailto:sampsa at mac.com>> wrote:
This book is hilarious, and can be copied from CHIMPY::UGH.PDF
over HECnet.
sampsa
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On 10/03/2013 10:14 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
I'm not saying I hate linux for servers...I just hate RHEL and Red Hat
as a company. ;)
Oh ok. I'll back you on that point. (though they were nice enough to
give some very fine hardware a few years ago...)
Remember, you go out of your way to break things...that sorta
disqualifies you from complaining that things are broken. ;)
True. YUM is an more just braindead than it is broken.
I can agree with that. One just can't get much better than "apt-get".
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Hello!
No you do it.
-----
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
Grab the hardware!!
On 10/03/2013 10:00 PM, Joe Ferraro wrote:
We just turned off our last VAX this month. Was replaced with none other
than a Linux VM.
(We still have a few left, but none left at my plant).
On Oct 2, 2013, at 15:34, Tony Blews <tonyblews at gmail.com
<mailto:tonyblews at gmail.com>> wrote:
Fantastic. I remember reading that a long long time ago, just when we
were phasing the VMS machines and terminals out in favour of Ultrix
DECstations and VAXstations.
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com
<mailto:sampsa at mac.com>> wrote:
This book is hilarious, and can be copied from CHIMPY::UGH.PDF
over HECnet.
sampsa
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
That is a really, really bad idea. Just FYI.
On 10/03/2013 10:13 PM, Joe Ferraro wrote:
Close. OEL 6 on Cisco UCS. But same same (ok, worse in my opinion).
On Oct 3, 2013, at 22:09, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
On Fri, 4 Oct 2013, Joe Ferraro wrote:
We just turned off our last VAX this month. Was replaced with none other than a Linux VM.
(We still have a few left, but none left at my plant).
Linux VM? Let me guess..Red Hat Enterprise Linux on a Dell? (I hate Red Hat with a passion for commercialising linux...among other things they do.) Along with the fact most of their products are utter crap. I mean...YUM still can't search for packages while it's installing packages?... Can you GET more braindead?
I've seen better "enterprise" products come out of dumpsters.
On Oct 2, 2013, at 15:34, Tony Blews <tonyblews at gmail.com> wrote:
Fantastic. I remember reading that a long long time ago, just when we were phasing the VMS machines and terminals out in favour of Ultrix DECstations and VAXstations.
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
This book is hilarious, and can be copied from CHIMPY::UGH.PDF over HECnet.
sampsa
--
Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Hello!
Being right is my job, Cory.
And as it happens, You're right. Red Hat only writes Linux that's not
on Intel. I certainly hope Joe you're not running RHEL in there.....
-----
Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
"This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Cory Smelosky <b4 at gewt.net> wrote:
On Fri, 4 Oct 2013, Joe Ferraro wrote:
We just turned off our last VAX this month. Was replaced with none other
than a Linux VM.
(We still have a few left, but none left at my plant).
Linux VM? Let me guess..Red Hat Enterprise Linux on a Dell? (I hate Red
Hat with a passion for commercialising linux...among other things they do.)
Along with the fact most of their products are utter crap. I mean...YUM
still can't search for packages while it's installing packages?... Can you
GET more braindead?
I've seen better "enterprise" products come out of dumpsters.
On Oct 2, 2013, at 15:34, Tony Blews <tonyblews at gmail.com> wrote:
Fantastic. I remember reading that a long long time ago, just when we
were phasing the VMS machines and terminals out in favour of Ultrix
DECstations and VAXstations.
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
This book is hilarious, and can be copied from CHIMPY::UGH.PDF over
HECnet.
sampsa
--
Cory Smelosky
http://gewt.net Personal stuff
http://gimme-sympathy.org Projects
