OK, one more question about sending email TO an old VAX

On Wed, 24 Feb 2016, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote: I don't remember the details of all-in-one at all. It is possible that all-in-one just used the standard VMS mailbox but I do not remember. All-in-One was retired long before VMS was retired. First, we are still running PMDF and we are still running it on our brace of DS20E Tru64 boxes, the gods have decreed that we will be on Office365 by the end of March but the removal of PMDF will be a separate project which will be put in motion some time this year. It is possible that we will just move it over to a Linux box along with the mailman server but I would rather retire both PMDF and mailman. As for the 8650... Lessee... AU purchased an 8600 some time around 1985? The 8600 was upgraded in place to an 8650 The 8650 was traded in on an 8820 for $1.2 million Some time in the very late 80s a VAX 4000-300 was purchased Circa 1990 the 8820 and the 4000 were traded in for two VAX 4000-500s The VAX 4000-500 were upgrade twice in place finally to a 505A The VAX 4000 was finally shut off around 2010 So, no, only the 785 suffered the indignity of a slow death in the rain. PMDF was left running on the VAX 4000 until the end but even I was not logging into it any more. I was running a DECstation 3000 Model 400 which was purchsed around 1990 on my desktop until about 2005 when the memory went South, I was looking into replacing it with yet another Linux box when my boss (Greg) suggested I go into the machine room and dig the Alphaserver 4100 (retired Unix Oracle server) out from under the debree and use that so I did. The 4100 is now running VMS 8.3, Multinet, and PMDF and it was my only desktop workstation until 2010 when it lost a power supply so I built a linux box while waiting for HP to provide a power supply (lax management had left the 4100 on a service contract so I ordered a power supply first and told the boss to cancel the service contract second). The 4100 is still pouring out noise and heat beside my desk but the linux box has become my main computer. I will probably take the 4100 home when I retire on December 31 so it can warm up my basement. -- Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those Athabasca University : tuques we wear, our Athabasca, Alberta Canada : heads are naked!" ** rlloken at telus.net ** : - Arthur Black