[Info-vax] rx2800i2 sales/support window changes

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <b1c1ff37-bc7c-48fd-bd34-82f23234a5b3 at googlegroups.com>,
	BillPedersen <pedersen at ccsscorp.com> writes:
> On Friday, February 14, 2014 12:37:55 PM UTC-5, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> In article <0b8cb0cb-3c85-4a9e-93a0-0b94a5d18f97 at googlegroups.com>,
>> 
>> 
>> I guess it depends on interpretation of all the news stories.  What I got
>> out of it was that NASA wanted out because they no longer were using it.
>> Part of it is to be restored as a historical site (Hanger 1) and the field
>> itself is going to be used as a commercial field which Google's people
>> are going to manage. (Seemed like it was primarily going to be for
>> corporate jets..)  But NASA use seems to be over. And may have been for
>> some years now.
>> 
>> And I seriuously doubt the Google contract will include keeping that
>> VAX going as it runs neither Android or ChromeOS.  
>> 
>> I do wonder what kind of a simulator it was running, though.  Considering
>> that the one of the remote sites was Huntsville it had to be something
>> for NASA.  I assume the others were probably Houston, Greenbelt and where
>> else?  Maybe Cape Canaveral?
>> 
>> bill
> Bill, I think you are confusing Moffett Field with the NASA Ames
> Research Center located right next door to it.  

No, that seems to be you.  The simulator project running on VAX VMS 
that was looking for someone with VAX VMS experience on USAJOBS.GOV
clearly said Moffett Field and not NASA Ames.  The fact that it is
NASA that is leasing this to Google now kinda hints that they owned/
operated it in the past.  Additionally, the simlator project mentioned
5 sites with the only one other than Moffett that they mentioned being
Huntsville poionts even more towards it being a NASA operation.  If
the headquarters for the project was at Moffett Field and the government
(ie. NASA) are no longer using facilities at Moffett Field I think it
is safe to assume the project is over.

>                                                  The airfield has
> has been used by many people and companies over the years as well
> as the Federal government.  I do not see anything in the discussion
> and announcements that would suggest they are shutting down the
> Research Center - where the computers and wind tunnels are located.

I never said they were.  As a matter of fact, until this message, I
never mentioned NASA Ames at all, you did.

> The agreement is for the airfield and its maintenance and operation
> not the maintenance and operation of the research facilities next door.

Exactly.  NASA is turning over operations of the Field to Google.  And,
the simulator was headquartered out of Moffett Field, not NASA Ames.
Therefore, it is reasonable to assume that the simulator project is
now gone.

I just wondered two things.
1.  What was it simulating? 
2.  What happened to the equipment?

bill

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