[Info-vax] Confuse the kids!

Bill Gunshannon bill.gunshannon at gmail.com
Thu Jul 20 08:26:41 EDT 2017


On 7/20/2017 5:06 AM, IanD wrote:
> I tried to edumacate my kids by showing them VMS a few years back
> 
> I showed them a VMS login and showed how when you typed commands the system churned away and responded
> 
> They looked at me typing stuff, doing a show monitor for less than 30 seconds and said "Meh, how boring" and walked off
> 
> I managed to throw in a comment about that's sort of what your tablet and phone does in the background but they couldn't care
> 
> A few years before that I showed them a video of a large DC I had to go to once and showed them all the servers lined up and even one that was very colorful and had Google on the front of it - same response, they were just not interested
> 
> Very disappointing indeed :-(
> 

And still you wonder why bringing VMS back is going to be a really hard
sell.....


bill



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