9 Sep
2011
9 Sep
'11
8:07 p.m.
On Fri, 9 Sep 2011, Ian King wrote:
I've had to replace the power supply in both cabinets in mine. Similar
contact story from someone who found my VAX page:
"Saw your page - man that brings back memories. My dad had an Alumni
account at Rowan in the early 90s and that VAX is how I learned about the
Internet and IRC, via a dialup terminal. Glad to know its still kicking
somewhere!"
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/
On Fri, 9 Sep
2011, Mike Loewen wrote:
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:
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