[Info-vax] Vax Station 4000 VLC

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Den 2019-01-03 kl. 15:40, skrev Marc Van Dyck:
> gérard Calliet has brought this to us :
>> Le 02/01/2019 à 02:31, Richard Maher a écrit :
>>> On 31/12/2018 4:08 pm, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) wrote:
>>>> In article <q0bsng$t88$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, Richard Maher
>>>> <maher_rjSPAMLESS at hotmail.com> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> My real point is that I'm just sick of all these nostalgia junkies
>>>>> saying "Without a DEC keyboard I can't play Star Tek properly :-(" pr
>>>>
>>>> No.  How many years have people lost because they never learned to type
>>>> properly?  If one can type properly AND use the keypad (not just in
>>>> EDT), a huge amount of time is saved.  Of course, people who can't type
>>>> properly won't care about the keypad.
>>>
>>> Yep. Even by my shoddy standards my post was unintelligible. Started my 
>>> New Year's eve celebrating pretty early.
>>>>
>>>>> "I'm too old too learm Windows" (tou should DCL fans will love 
>>>>> PowerShell).
>>>>
>>>> No.  Life is too short to mess with Windows.  Or Linux.
>>>
>>> I take my hat off to everyone/anyone who's been able to earn a living in 
>>> the last 10 years IT with just VMS.
>>>
>>>
>> I did.
> 
> I did too. I started my career with VMS in college in 1980, and never
> left it since. I never touched a single Unix or Linux system, and
> I'm just a simple, straightforward MS Windows end user. And it looks
> like the next five years I have in front of me to finish my professional
> career will not be any different. How's that ?
> 

Similar here. Even if it was a PDP-11 environment up to the first MV-II
arrived (uVMS 4.7). Since then it has been daily VMS work. A little unclear
when this will end, but I'll plan to retire when it does...

I get contracts for 6 months a time and when this started 12 years ago,
this environment had "3-4 years" to live. And when asked today, that is
still the case...

Doing most of the work from my home-office and visiting the site 5-6
times a year for 2-3 days a time. Suites me just fine.