[Info-vax] WIN AN RX2660 ~~~THE GREAT INTEGRITY GIVE AWAY !!!

[Paul Sture]

On 2014-09-02, Hein RMS van den Heuvel <heinvandenheuvel at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, July 10, 2014 9:33:09 PM UTC-4, David Turner wrote:
>> All you have to do is send us an email with:
>>   " I want an HP Integrity rx2660 for free"      in the subject line  
>:
>> We will do a prize drawing and the winner will be announced directly and  
>> on OpenVMS.org on August 10th 2014.
>
> Well folks, "I never win anything" but this time I did! Wow.
>
> David very promptly shipped the well packaged system.
> I needed a bit of time to set it up (travelling too much, Atlanta mostly).
> These are good looking boxes inside and out, quit a bit nicer than the
> old rx2600's I'm working with normally.
>
> It booted right up, just fine. 
> Here is that dream-machine on the dining table:
>
> http://www.encompasserve.org/~hein/P1040035_1024X768.JPG

Great choice of beer there!  Not just "Dream Machine" but "IPL" too.
(Initial Program Load means "boot" in IBM-ese)

> A minute later it had the DECwindows screen and I logged onto the
> pre-installed, and pre-patched OpenVMS 8.4.
>
> Very nice.
>
> Thanks a lot Island Computers. 
> Thanks David for taking extra good care of the OpenVMS community. 
>
> https://www.islandco.com/hp-integrity/hp-integrity-rx2660-openvms/hp-integrity-rx2660-openvms-org-special-summer-2014

-- 
Computers haven't had a decent amount of flashing lights since the 70s