[HECnet] happy news

On 10/22/2012 10:00 AM, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons wrote: I brought up my VAX 7000 yesterday. 2x HSJ50s CI-connected controllers with six 9GB SCSI drives, 1.5GB of RAM, and two 600-series processors, running VMS 7.3. It's not running full-time, but I'll be running it more as the weather turns colder. What a beautiful machine. Congratulations! Thank you! I love hearing the humming of my real VAXen... and those are a 4000/200 and a micro-3300. So I guess the humming of a 7000 is a thousand times better than that ;) The 7000 doesn't so much "hum" as it does "rumble". That gigantic low-speed blower is most impressive. (Weather has cooled a little bit around here... and I have been powering on my machines a little bit lately. Guess I will need no climatizer in winter). Nope! I need to figure out, watt for watt, if it's more expensive to heat with electricity (via big iron in my case) than natural gas here in western PA USA. I suspect gas is cheaper, but am not certain, and I don't know the transfer function of the boiler in my building. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA