[HECnet] Hello from New Zealand

Hi All, This morning I managed to hook up to HECnet after a great deal of patient help from Bob Armstrong. I thought I'd introduce myself to this community and also say thank you all for what you have created. My first experience with DEC goes back to the late seventies with paper tape FOCAL on a PDP-11/20, later RT-11 and UCSD Pascal on a PDP-11/34 with an RL02.? While at university the undergraduate Computer Science courses were based around Pascal running on the then new brand VAX-11/780. And during my early career in government science everything revolved around MicroVAXen. After entering private industry my first job was at a company that had a 11/730 for accounting but WinNT server and Win95/98 desktops were all the rage for office productivity. The DEC stable here has a real MicroVAX 3800 (runs VMS 5.4-3), a core memoried PDP-11/05, and a PDP-11/24. The two PDPs are restoration projects.? I also have a small IBM hardware collection and have played with the Hercules S/370 emulation project. My connection to HECnet at the moment is with a emulated 3900 running OpenVMS 7.3 using SIMH version 4 with using the Win32 pre-built binary 2020-06-09 and NPCAP 0.9995 on Windows 10. I'm much more of a hardware design type person and have never been an admin or indeed a very good programmer, apart perhaps from RCA 1802 and MC6800 assembler.? I also have quite a bit of Cisco IOS experience and have participated in networks like DN42 while maintaining various other hobby (amateur radio) and work related networks. Regards, John ZL4JY Waikanae NEW ZEALAND