[Info-vax] free shell accounts?

[Rich Alderson]

Stan Radford <sradford at noemail.net> writes:

> Hi and thanks for the link. I will definitely check them out although I
> guess from the fact they are a museum and running a VAX this is more aimed
> at the retrocomputing user and I do have some interest there but for VMS I
> was wondering more about how useful and enjoyable it would be coding on it
> today. I have been using UNIX for a long time and and would like to know
> what else is available.

True, at present we are running VMS 6.2, but I plan to update us to 7.3 this
year, probably early 2015Q2 depending on other project priorities.

We are not particularly "retrocomputing" oriented; we are in the business, like
other major computing meusuems, of demonstrating how the modern (computing)
world developed from our early beginnings.  We've had more than 18,000 visitors
in the 2 years we've been open to the general public (~7000 the first year,
11,000+ last year), certainly not all retrocomputing enthusiasts.

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