[HECnet] DECnet for Linux

Hello! Indeed. I got there in time for your "How to wrap a computer for mailing" session.. And naturally by the time you were looking for me, I had managed to reach the point where I'd implode if I didn't return here. Then when you returned, they'd moved those events to the Friday, and I was able to properly explore things. Where you are? RSN. As for Erik building via Slackware, I am pleased. I also arranged that. Now that I think about it, that sound it made was the teletypewriter responding....... ----- Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 1:22 AM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote: > > The 11/70? Yes, that's the one that I had at VCF-E. > > Amusingly, I remember meeting you, you had introduced yourself as > Gregg, but I had not made the connection that you were THE Gregg until a > few hours later, when I couldn't find you! ;) > > I do hope you can come out to visit someday. > > -Dave > > On 01/25/2018 10:31 PM, Gregg Levine wrote: >> Hello! >> Yikes! I believe that's the system that made a rude noise at me the >> day we met, and VCF that year. No not the crowd I hung around with, >> and of course yourself, but wow. I'll be there someday. >> ----- >> Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com >> "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." >> >> >> On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 7:16 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote: >>> On 01/25/2018 07:11 PM, Supratim Sanyal wrote: >>>>>>> I keep an Ubuntu 12.10 VM running at the museum to use as a hop-off >>>>>>> point and file transfer system. It sure would be nice to not have to do >>>>>>> that. :) >>>>>> Easy. Set up an RSX system instead. Then you can transport files between >>>>>> DECnet and TCP/IP easily, as well as send/receive mail, and run >>>>>> interactive terminal sessions, and more... :-) >>>>> There are many RSX systems here. I think we're over a dozen now, >>>>> between the museum and the systems in my home/work building around the >>>>> corner. But we usually don't leave PDP-11s up and running all the time. >>>> >>>> Here's Dave booting one up just shy of four hours away: >>>> http://triblive.com/local/valleynewsdispatch/12104848-74/new-kensington-mus… >>> >>> Hey, I remember that interview! That was a fun day. Matt, the >>> journalist, has brought many friends to tour the museum since then. >>> >>> Not exactly a flattering angle on me in that pic, but I'll take what I >>> can get. B-) >>> >>> -Dave >>> >>> -- >>> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ >>> New Kensington, PA > > > -- > Dave McGuire, AK4HZ > New Kensington, PA