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[BillPedersen]

On Friday, February 14, 2014 11:38:07 AM UTC-5, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> I assume by now everyone has seen the news about Google taking
> over Moffett Field in California.  Many moons ago when we were
> discussing government use of VMS and people were convinced I
> was VMS' main detractor I pointed out that there was a simulation
> project running on the VAX (I assume because of hardware constraints)
> headquartered out of Moffett Field with a (small) number of remote
> sites including Huntsville, AL.  Well, it looks like this has also
> gone the way of the dodo as the governemtn is abandoning Moffett
> Field.  Wonder what happened to the equipment?  Does our resident
> NASA rep know anything about this?
> 
> bill


The news from NASA does not sound like it is going away:

   http://www.nasa.gov/ames/gsa-nasa-competitively-select-preferred-lessee/#.Uv5JyM4z1AY

"GSA, NASA Competitively Select Planetary Ventures LLC to Begin Lease Negotiations for Rehabilitation of Hangar One and Use of Moffett Federal Airfield

"February 10, 2014

"The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) and NASA have selected Planetary Ventures LLC as the preferred lessee on a lease to rehabilitate historic Hangar One and to manage Moffett Federal Airfield, currently managed by NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. The lease will put Hangar One to new use and eliminate NASA's management costs of the airfield."

NASA Ames Research Center was a fairly decent DEC customer in its day.  I spent many days there with customers.  At one time there were several software and hardware resident engineers on site.  Moffett Field was  not solely dedicated to NASA as it was Naval Air Station with the constant changing of the "guard" of Orion P3's coming and going to do patrol off the West Coast.  It has been many years since I have been around there and it sounds like there are changes but it does not sound like they are "shutdown".

Bill.