[HECnet] SIMH for VMS on VAX

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote: On 01/17/2013 02:43 PM, Mark Benson wrote: I know right? I'm amazed they still work! Ahh, young'ns. ;) You're accustomed to brand-new drives dying in a year or two. That's a relatively recent thing, designed to drive sales figures. Yeah. That's why belligerent bastards like me ALWAYS send 2-year old corpses back to the manufacturer for replacement under warranty. I ain't paying for a drive to die after 18 months when I have drives here I bought and used 10 years ago that are still 100% working!! Yep. [Dave glances over at a stack of 40-year-old RK05s that work great..] -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA Hello! The only reason why those middle-aged drives work is because they've got great backup... I've got a crowd of SCSI drives here that agree with you Dave. There's also a pair of one hundred year old Yetis outside who agree. When they aren't doing things...... ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."