Jeez. That would be "the other Johnny". I often use the DECnet dump tool he wrote (anfdump) and will always have fond memories of interactions we have had. Same for Hans. He used to go out of his way to retrieve and digitize arcane pieces of software only he seemed to have physical media of. Again fond memories of email exchanges. May their souls rest in peace. --- Supratim Sanyal, W1XMT 39.19151 N, 77.23432 W QCOCAL::SANYAL via HECnet

On 2/28/2020 9:44 AM, Dave McGuire wrote: From Camiel Vanderhoeven on C.O.V After we learned of his parting, we contacted his daughters. Dutch DECcies made two trips to his house to collect the hardware, software and documentation (I took part in the second trip, as I couldn't make it for the first one). All has been rescued, and various new homes were found everything. We're still sorting through a lot, but there are some real gems there, including a nearly complete documentation set for a Burroughs 7700 mainframe. I've taken it upon myself to properly scan these and make them available publicly. It also led me to discover additional common history between myself and Hans, besides a love of all things DEC. I knew that the Eindhoven University of Technology, where I studied in the late 90's, once had a Burroughs mainframe, so when we discovered the Burroughs manuals, I asked Hans' daughters if these could possibly come from Eindhoven University. His daughters dug up an article about Hans that mentioned how, as a student and assistant systems administrator, he used to play with the Burroughs mainframe at the University, sometimes to the despair of Carel Braam, the head systems administrator at the University datacenter. As it happens, when I was a student, I also was an assistant systems administrator - though the Burroughs was long gone - serving under the same Carel, some twenty years after Hans held the position. When I left university, Carel gave me one of the Burroughs logos taken from one of the doors of that same old Burroughs mainframe. So now I have the documentation to go with it. Camiel -- John H. Reinhardt

On 2020-02-28 11:11, Supratim Sanyal wrote: Correct. That would be "the other Johnny". I always felt very embarrassed about him signing his mails that way. We knew each other from a long time ago. He was a few years older than me, and we were both at a computer club at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. And I was just a newbie there, while he was very much in the inner circle of things. So I always considered him to have been around since before me, and that made it funny to think of me as the "reference" and him as "the other one". His nickname was bygg, and he several tools and people found useful. All with the aim of propagating more Tops-10 on the world. :-) Indeed. Johnny (one of us) -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol