I used to service a VAX 4000-200 that had one of those in, monitoring 17,000 endpoints in an oil refinery and crunching the numbers for a daily report to the site manager. If you don't have the peerway at the other end and the custom software it won't do anything. That machine's probably still in its home behind the panels in the control room. I had to head over there every january to do a PM on it even after the chap who ran it left and they didn't replace him. One year I 'serviced' it (not much to do, it was clean and dust free) then went back the next year to find the Dead Sergeant prompt (>>>). Booting it back up I discovered it had crashed 3 days after my previous visit and nobody noticed. Not much point in going back after that! On 12 October 2016 at 13:18, jim stephens <jwsmail at jwsss.com> wrote: -- adrian/witchy Owner of Binary Dinosaurs, the UK's biggest home computer collection? www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk

I'm sure there are fellow roadgeeks on this list, so I find VMS(*) in this context to be thoroughly ambiguous. :) -- ------------------------------------ personal: http://www.cameronkaiser.com/ -- Cameron Kaiser * Floodgap Systems * www.floodgap.com * ckaiser at floodgap.com -- And now for something completely different. -- Monty Python ---------------- (*) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable-message_sign

For a moment there I thought I was getting work emails sent to my personal account! I happen to work for a company that is contracted to build and maintain Highway Control systems for Highways England (Formerly Highways Agency) I can't say I've seen anything that old in production now, but we used to have PDP-8s and 11s long before I joined the company. Until fairly recently we were using Alphastation DS10s and DS15s to control Variable Message Signs (a staple of British motorways, basically a large orange dot-matrix display on an overhead gantry for anyone who hasn't seen them, they privide traffic and weather information, and are used to set speed limits and close lanes), MIDAS systems (Inductive loops in the road for measuring the flow of traffic), traffic cameras, and I believe the Tamar Bridge and Dartford-Thurrock River Crossing too. There's a new-ish HP Integrity server running OpenVMS still, no idea what it's for. We're mainly a x86 + Linux shop now. We still have 7 of these Alphas on the scrap pile, which I've spent a couple of weeks trying to get permission to save. -Tom On 13 October 2016 at 09:44, Peter Coghlan <cctalk at beyondthepale.ie> wrote: