Misty eyes (wa: Re: [plug] Dead hdd)

[Shayne O'Neill]

Aye... I'd reeeeealy love to find a smallish old microvax for my
grandfather. he used to work for BP running a bunch of nutty old
mainframes and he still gets a glint in his eye talking about his old vax.

vms baffles me however, although I do apreciate just how stable it was. (I
believe vms still has never been cracked at the defcon hacker meets)

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Shayne O'Neill. Indymedia. Fun.
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On Sat, 15 May 2004, Garry wrote:

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> Shayne O'Neill wrote:
> | I used to have a really cool old pdp11-something
> | about the size of those old bar radiators. My dad brought it back from
> | telstra when they updated a sat bandwidth booking  system to a P100 or
> something
> | (thats how long it lasted!) . I had some limited success getting it
> | rehabed (had to get a clock board flown from the us, as this crazy old
> | thing needed to interface to a 'atomic clock' (because it was for syncing
> | satelite stuff), but ultimately my girlfriend wanted it out of the house.
> | Gave it to this old dude I found.
>
> My first experiences with a computer was with PDP7s. When we updated to
> PDP11s, especially with the array processor attached, we were *really*
> humming..
>
> The company I worked for was Schlumberger Seaco. The PDPs were used to
> collect, process, log data from equipment used in oil well logging.
>
> If you approach them (their office used to be in Welshpool last time I
> heard), they might have one or a few propping open doors... Never know,
> they might give you  one and associated bits if you explain your
> historic interest..
>
> HTH
>
> Garry
>
>
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> In the 1980s, Mork said "Nannoo Nannoo".
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