[Info-vax] VAX 6000 on Young Sheldon

[bill]

On 2/9/2023 12:49 PM, kemain.nospam at gmail.com wrote:
> 
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>> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] VAX 6000 on Young Sheldon
>>
>> On Wed, 2023-02-08 at 18:42 +0100, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>>
>>> Well, I ceased to be a "normal" student pretty quickly, and for most
>>> everyone else it was also the case that they only sat in front of a
>>> terminal, in a terminal room, and nowhere near the actual hardware.
>>>
>>> The fans on the -8650 are the most fun/noisy/windy things I've
>>> experienced. The -2060 is larger, but less windy.
>>>
>>> The PDP-11/70 is comparatively speaking almost silent. :-D
>>>
>>
>> HP servers are /awful/. Sounds like a jet taking off on bootup.
>>
>>>> Reminds me of the night I broke down right by the Navy base and got
>>>> two men with machine guns in my face :-D. Remember, back in these
>>>> days they were right to be concerned with threats from the Irish
>>>> provos.
>>>
>>> :-D
>>> It was never that crazy in Sweden. Although, there was this one
>>> VAX-11/782 that sat in a container for quite a while, with dubious
>>> papers, and an intended destination somewhere in Russia. Never got
>>> there in the end, but that was a funny one...
>>
>> Yes, didn't the Russians make DEC machine clones? Right down to the
>> message left on the etched masking on the one of the MicroVAx chips n
>> Russian "When you care enough to copy the very best".
>> --
>> Tactical Nuclear Kittens
>>
> 
> Yeah .. that 11/782 "farm machinery" shipment that was planned for shipment
> to Russia almost cost DEC corporate to lose its WW export license from the
> US Government.
> 
> After that incident, every DEC employee WW had to take a short course on
> import/export compliance and being aware of various scenario watch-outs.
> 

The biggest violators were Indian companies who happily bought DEC
gear (and other prohibited items) did internal corporate transfer
from an American branch to an Indian branch and then sold it to the
USSR.  One of them used to brag about it on the original USENET. I
understand they continue to violate the sanctions against Russia
today.  And yet, we still call them allies.  What is the old
saying? "With friends like that who needs enemies."

bill