sad tale

I was at my grad school yesterday, and visited the guy I did vaxcluster admin work for back in 1992-93. A sad experience, I'm afraid. Turns out my guess was wrong, the LN-O3s appear to be long gone, first of all. Second, they've migrated away from DEC equipment in general to a mix of NT and IBM AIX machines. The cluster I used to run, from the sound of things, has been reduced to only the server, the vax 4000/500, and it's off maintenance contract and scheduled to be pulled from service within a year. *sigh* Sic transit gloria Vaxen. A silver lining - if I keep after the guy, I'm thinking he might take me up on my offer to haul it all away for free. What I'd do with an 8350, 5 microvaxen and so on in addition to the 4000/500 (assuming they still have all the members of the cluster) I dunno, but if it comes up, I'll figure it out. :) -- Jim Strickland jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Vote Meadocrat! Bill and Opus in 2000 - Who ELSE is there? -----------------------------------------------------------------------