The cat might think differently
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Van: Sampsa Laine
Verzonden: zondag 25 januari 2015 19:31
Aan: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
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Onderwerp: Re: [HECnet] Number of nodes online a bit low?
And the worst thing about it - I've got LOADS of room for this thing, I live alone in 150 sq m flat (well I have a cat, so that's like 1.3 people).
I just don't have the power infrastructure to run it. And NO I am NOT buying my own diesel generator.
On 25 Jan 2015, at 20:13, John Wilson <wilson at dbit.com> wrote:
From: Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com>
< but >
However
< I really had nowhere to put it >
I could not find sufficient space for such a large object anywhere =
reasonable.
Yeah that's the part that's just line noise. What are you sitting on
right now? Couldn't it be a PDP-11 instead? And do you sleep lying
down? That space could be put to better use.
John Wilson (whose dining room has an 11/34a and an 11/93 in it, kitchen
has two RK05s, living room has a BA23 with a Mentec CPU, etc. etc. etc.)
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From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On
Behalf Of John Wilson
Sent: 25 January 2015 18:14
To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE
Subject: Re: [HECnet] Number of nodes online a bit low?
From: Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com>
< but >
However
< I really had nowhere to put it >
I could not find sufficient space for such a large object anywhere =
reasonable.
Yeah that's the part that's just line noise. What are you sitting on
right now?
Couldn't it be a PDP-11 instead? And do you sleep lying down? That space
could be put to better use.
John Wilson (whose dining room has an 11/34a and an 11/93 in it, kitchen
has
two RK05s, living room has a BA23 with a Mentec CPU, etc. etc. etc.)
My wife is pretty tolerant, but that would be too much. I tell her how lucky
she is; I could have reacted to my mid-life crisis by buying a sports car
and growing a pony tail, instead I just collect old computers, which is a
lot cheaper (mostly!) and less embarrassing. :-)
Regards
Rob
And the worst thing about it - I've got LOADS of room for this thing, I live alone in 150 sq m flat (well I have a cat, so that's like 1.3 people).
I just don't have the power infrastructure to run it. And NO I am NOT buying my own diesel generator.
On 25 Jan 2015, at 20:13, John Wilson <wilson at dbit.com> wrote:
From: Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com>
< but >
However
< I really had nowhere to put it >
I could not find sufficient space for such a large object anywhere =
reasonable.
Yeah that's the part that's just line noise. What are you sitting on
right now? Couldn't it be a PDP-11 instead? And do you sleep lying
down? That space could be put to better use.
John Wilson (whose dining room has an 11/34a and an 11/93 in it, kitchen
has two RK05s, living room has a BA23 with a Mentec CPU, etc. etc. etc.)
The PDP-11 was in Helsinki, I'm in Beirut.
Logistically this was deemed to be not feasible.
On 25 Jan 2015, at 20:13, John Wilson <wilson at dbit.com> wrote:
From: Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com>
< but >
However
< I really had nowhere to put it >
I could not find sufficient space for such a large object anywhere =
reasonable.
Yeah that's the part that's just line noise. What are you sitting on
right now? Couldn't it be a PDP-11 instead? And do you sleep lying
down? That space could be put to better use.
John Wilson (whose dining room has an 11/34a and an 11/93 in it, kitchen
has two RK05s, living room has a BA23 with a Mentec CPU, etc. etc. etc.)
Now that's what I'd call interior design.
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Onderwerp: Re: [HECnet] Number of nodes online a bit low?
From: Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com>
< but >
However
< I really had nowhere to put it >
I could not find sufficient space for such a large object anywhere =
reasonable.
Yeah that's the part that's just line noise. What are you sitting on
right now? Couldn't it be a PDP-11 instead? And do you sleep lying
down? That space could be put to better use.
John Wilson (whose dining room has an 11/34a and an 11/93 in it, kitchen
has two RK05s, living room has a BA23 with a Mentec CPU, etc. etc. etc.)
If syntax wasn't the issue then semantics probably was. A syntactical analysis won't help you Sampsa:-)
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Onderwerp: Re: [HECnet] Number of nodes online a bit low?
On 25 Jan 2015, at 19:33, John Wilson <wilson at dbit.com> wrote:
From: Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com>
I was offered a PDP-11 but I really had nowhere to put it.
The individual words are fine, but this sentence makes no sense.
John Wilson
D Bit
< I was offered >
Somebody offered me
< a PDP-11 >
One PDP-11
< but >
However
< I really had nowhere to put it >
I could not find sufficient space for such a large object anywhere reasonable.
From: Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com>
< but >
However
< I really had nowhere to put it >
I could not find sufficient space for such a large object anywhere =
reasonable.
Yeah that's the part that's just line noise. What are you sitting on
right now? Couldn't it be a PDP-11 instead? And do you sleep lying
down? That space could be put to better use.
John Wilson (whose dining room has an 11/34a and an 11/93 in it, kitchen
has two RK05s, living room has a BA23 with a Mentec CPU, etc. etc. etc.)
On 25 Jan 2015, at 19:33, John Wilson <wilson at dbit.com> wrote:
From: Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com>
I was offered a PDP-11 but I really had nowhere to put it.
The individual words are fine, but this sentence makes no sense.
John Wilson
D Bit
< I was offered >
Somebody offered me
< a PDP-11 >
One PDP-11
< but >
However
< I really had nowhere to put it >
I could not find sufficient space for such a large object anywhere reasonable.
From: Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com>
I was offered a PDP-11 but I really had nowhere to put it.
The individual words are fine, but this sentence makes no sense.
John Wilson
D Bit
Shipping to Lebanon would be inconvenient I think..
I MIGHT manage a VAXstation 9000 but with the power here, I don't think I could keep it up 24/7...
Sampsa
On 25 Jan 2015, at 17:50, steve at davidson.net wrote:
Sampsa,
There is ALWAYS room for a REAL PDP-11! :-)
I just picked up four (4) PDP-11/73's in the BA23 boxes.
-Steve
On 2015-01-25 10:44, Sampsa Laine wrote:
I was offered a PDP-11 but I really had nowhere to put it.
Sampsa
On 25 Jan 2015, at 17:38, Tim Sneddon <tim at sneddon.id.au> wrote:
On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 11:31 PM, Sampsa Laine <sampsa at mac.com> wrote:
Could always run a few emulated boxes, but I guess it's not the same thing.
That's right. I run a PDP-11/93 and RSTS/E on simh, but I desperately wish I could tack down something genuine. However, getting a hold of that stuff in Australia (especially WA) seems to be an exercise in futility.
Regards, Tim.
