9 Sep
2011
9 Sep
'11
7:33 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-
bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Mike Loewen
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 5:12 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Interesting email addresses of old...
On Fri, 9 Sep 2011, Mark Wickens wrote:
Speaking of old VAXen and email and, well, the same story in a lot of respects: a
machine in my personal collection is a VAX 4000/300 (a great box) that had served as
nessie.wwu.edu (an OS was on the machine and I did a conversational boot into it just to
see what was what). I picked it up from a manufacturing company that had acquired it as
part of a larger lot and didn't know what to do with it.
Years later, when I started working at the Living Computer Museum, my manager mentioned
he'd been at Western Washington University, had learned assembly language programming
on a VAX, and he wondered what had ever happened to "nessie". We connected the
dots, and... imagine how jealous he is that I have that machine! I've had to replace
a power supply but other than that it's run great for me. -- Ian
I was just trawling through some of my file
archives and found my old
email
address when at University:
mwickens at vax2.luton.ac.uk - from 1993 to 1996
At the time I wasn't really into VAXen, but subsequently have wondered
about
the VAX that handled my emails during that time.
In the last year a new
Alpha
system came online, and new email accounts were
set up on that box.
Speaking of VAXen and email, my collection includes the VAX 4000/300
purchased by Rowan University in NJ (then Glassboro State College) in
1991. It was online as saturn.rowan.edu until 2001, as one of the systems
which allowed student internet accounts. The guide to using the system is
still available:
ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/eff/Net_culture/Net_info/Guidebooks/VMS_net_gu
ide/