XKL TOAD

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Pontus <pontus at update.uu.se> wrote: That is small and cute. I worked next to some Systems Concepts machines at the Hilliard, OH, data center in 2003 - my stuff was a wall of Alpha CPUs and disk, several rows away from the 36-bit hardware, but I still had to walk by it every day. I _think_ it was a small wall of SC30s, but I could be wrong. I was told that because of how CompuServe was carved up between MCI/Worldcom and AOL, MCI/Worldcom was still running billing jobs on the 36-bit machines and that more than one attempt to re-write that stuff had ended with a lack of success. No idea if they are _still_ running it or not, but a replacement was not in sight by late 2003. The Toad does look great, though. For now though, like most of the list, I'll be getting my 36-bit fix via klh10 and the graces of Paul Allen. I occasionally check in on the 10-on-an-FPGA projects from time to time, but I can't allocate a lot of money to that aspect of the hobby, so I sit on the sidelines and see how they are coming along. For what I do (Zork regression testing for ZDungeon), I don't really need to own real 36-bit hardware, just an account is enough, so that's what I'm doing. I still wouldn't mind owning real 36-bit hardware, but unless it was some sort of rescue, I don't see it happening in my future. -ethan