[Info-vax] Assistance needed!! working RM05 drive and VAX needed for proje

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2023-09-28 15:01, Dave Froble wrote:
> On 9/28/2023 8:16 AM, bill wrote:
>> On 9/28/2023 6:53 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>> On 2023-09-28 05:52, gah4 wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Power bills I don't think LCM ever worried about, though maybe they 
>>>> should.
>>>
>>> I run some small machines, and have had them running for over 20 
>>> years now.
>>> Including disks... Hello PDP-11s...
> 
> Since we're throwing around vague terminology, perhaps a definition of 
> "running for over 20 years now" might be helpful.
> 
> Not sure I can make such claims, as there are things like maintenance, 
> cleaning, power failure, moving, and such.  A couple of weeks ago we had 
> a 2-day power outage.  Rare, but it happens.

Admittedly, power outages have happened, but it was a few years since 
last. Uptimes are not that impressive, since I constantly are whacking 
at the kernel and networking, which requires me to sometimes reboot.

So - no. It's not been like 20+ years at 100%. But something close to 
99.99% for me.

Before then, when I was a student back in the 90s, I lived in a student 
apartmen (very small) where I was running my PDP-8 24/7. Sure it made 
some noise, but I got used to it.
Besides, a lot of the time I was at the University, hanging in the 
computer room next to a DEC-2060, a VAX-8650 and a PDP-11/70. At home 
was silent compared to that...

   Johnny