[Info-vax] Hans Vlems - RIP - 7/20/1956 - 11/3/2019

[Kerry Main]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Info-vax <info-vax-bounces at rbnsn.com> On Behalf Of Camiel
> Vanderhoeven via Info-vax
> Sent: February 28, 2020 7:24 AM
> To: info-vax at rbnsn.com
> Cc: Camiel Vanderhoeven <iamcamiel at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] Hans Vlems - RIP - 7/20/1956 - 11/3/2019
> 
> Op vrijdag 28 februari 2020 11:25:18 UTC+1 schreef Phillip Helbig (undress
to
> reply):
> 
> > He had a lot of hardware at home; I'm sure that he would have liked it
> > to live on.  Since he was only about 8 or 9 years older than I am, I
> > suspect that, as Hein wrote, his death was unexpected, so he might
> > have made no plans.
> >
> > It would probably be a welcome relief for his family if someone offers
> > to distribute his kit to the rest of the world.  I'll definitely be in
> > the Netherlands in August, and maybe in March, so could collect
> > anything I need and also anything anyone else might need and hold it
> > until it can be collected.  I'm not in a position to organzie anything,
though.
> 
> After we learned of his parting, we contacted his daughters. Dutch DECcies
> made two trips to his house to collect the hardware, software and
> documentation (I took part in the second trip, as I couldn't make it for
the
> first one). All has been rescued, and various new homes were found
> everything. We're still sorting through a lot, but there are some real
gems
> there, including a nearly complete documentation set for a Burroughs 7700
> mainframe. I've taken it upon myself to properly scan these and make them
> available publicly.
> 
> It also led me to discover additional common history between myself and
> Hans, besides a love of all things DEC. I knew that the Eindhoven
University
> of Technology, where I studied in the late 90's, once had a Burroughs
> mainframe, so when we discovered the Burroughs manuals, I asked Hans'
> daughters if these could possibly come from Eindhoven University. His
> daughters dug up an article about Hans that mentioned how, as a student
> and assistant systems administrator, he used to play with the Burroughs
> mainframe at the University, sometimes to the despair of Carel Braam, the
> head systems administrator at the University datacenter. As it happens,
> when I was a student, I also was an assistant systems administrator -
though
> the Burroughs was long gone - serving under the same Carel, some twenty
> years after Hans held the position. When I left university, Carel gave me
one
> of the Burroughs logos taken from one of the doors of that same old
> Burroughs mainframe. So now I have the documentation to go with it.
> 
> Camiel
> _______________________________________________

Sorry to hear about Hans. His posts go way, way back here in c.o.v. RIP.

The Burroughs mention reminds me of the old BUNCH acronym of major computer
companies from the past.

Regards,

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com