--- Bill Pechter <pechter_at_pechter.dyndns.org> wrote:
> > Since then, I've seen uptimes on the cluster at Lucent measured in months.
> >
> > -ethan
>
> Nice to see Lucent still has at least one Vax. Wish I could get an
> account or had the time to get my Vaxstation at home up.
When my contract ran out in April, they were still a couple of projects
running on the cluster of an 8550 (now defunct and a source of parts), an 8700,
an 8810 and some model of 7000. There were numerous 8650s and 88xxs and many
stripped shells of 6xxxs earlier this year. As I've written before, no chance
of rescue. :-( The VAXen, at least, being as big as they are and that
particular data center being as lightly used as it is, they haven't bothered
to clear out the machines. It's easier to leave them where they sit than to
move them. Perhaps they'll clean house in the New Year. Oh... I almost forgot
about the pair of RP06 drives sitting in the middle of the room with nothing
to talk to. There is *nothing* anywhere in there that could *possibly* have
a MASSBUS. I suppose that, given the large space _near_ the RPs that there
was once a 785 or something similar but has been gone for years.
> Bell Labs is pretty much Suns, PC's an occasional SGI or HP and
> no visible DEC. Boy the times have changed. I was the DEC install guy
> who installed 11/780's at the labs back in '81.
I should be more precise - I was referring to the Columbus Works, not
anyplace on the East Coast. I would be seriously surprised if you ever
installed a system in Ohio.
My primary job there was to be "The Sun Guy". Everybody else was an NCR
expert. They still have lots of them there, but NCR is just down the road
in Dayton.
-ethan
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Received on Fri Dec 03 1999 - 00:03:53 GMT