[Info-vax] Vax Station 4000 VLC

[Richard Maher]

On 4/01/2019 2:17 am, Henry Crun wrote:
> On 03/01/2019 19:19, VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>> In article <mn.1bac7e31e941b93e.104627 at invalid.skynet.be>, Marc Van 
>> Dyck <marc.gr.vandyck at invalid.skynet.be> writes:
>>> gיrard Calliet has brought this to us :
>>>> Le 02/01/2019 א 02:31, Richard Maher a יcrit :
>>>>> 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 ?
>>
>> Good for you!  My money comes in from VMS.  I use Linux and Android, but
>> nothing really for anthing that brings me money.  WEENDOZE?  Useless!  I
>> have one rocket altimeter that requires its data communication/download
>> software run on WEENDOZE.  It's nothing but problems, problems, problems.
>> I will not purchase any product that has a WEENDOZE only interface and I
>> am quite sorry I purchased this one particular altimeter.  I have never
>> has a need for WEENDOZE and as soon as I replace this rocket altimeter,
>> I will never have need for it again.
>>
> 
> 
> Me too, more or less.
> Started on PDP-11 (RSTS 6? IIRC)
> Went to a VAX 730 as soon as we got one.
> Working with VMS since except for a three-month hiatus between being 
> fired by HP for reaching mandatory pension age, and being rehired by HP 
> as a contractor at a client's site.
> Still there, working part-time. Turned 75 this year so that's probably 
> my last job.
> (When I started I was told 'it's a two year project' - that was four 
> years ago...)
> Linux at home, though.
> 

Congratulations all!

Just curious. How many apart from Brian are developers and how many get 
paid for "Monitoring" backups etc.

I guess I should've qualified my hat-tipping to developers (and not VSI 
people)