[Info-vax] Vax Station 4000 VLC

[Marc Van Dyck]

Richard Maher explained :
> 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)

I'm mainly a sysadmin, and coordinating the work of a team of 4 people
managing some 20 systems (Itanium, all migrated to VSI). Monitoring
backups is part of our job. I also do some development (in Pascal),
but it's quite limited.

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Marc Van Dyck