[Info-vax] So Long

[Subcommandante XDelta]

On Thu, 12 Dec 2024 13:24:30 -0000 (UTC), Simon Clubley
<clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:

>On 2024-12-11, Jilly <jilly at stny.rr.com> wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>> On Friday the time will come to close up my system and retire.  I started this 
>> journey in 1979, hired by Digital's Upgrade Training Program in CXO to learn 
>> electronics and started working on the RM02/03 manufacturing line.  From there 
>> I went to NYC Field Service and in 1989 I met John Hockett at a CSC Road Show 
>> interview. In May I was working on the VMS Internals and Performance team in 
>> CX03, hugely lucky in getting Mark Morris as a cube mate. John & Mark were 
>> primarily responsible for my progression in VMS Support.  In 1992 I started 
>> WFH and have been at home in Waverly, NY since 1994. I have worked with a 
>> number of highly talented people in the VMS ecosystem and am very grateful for 
>> all the collaborations I received over the years.
>>
>> My plans are to travel for family events, play more golf, do more racing 
>> travel but most of all, play more poker.
>>
>> I wish VSI all the best for the future of VMS.
>>
>> Have a safe & happy holiday.
>>
>
>Congratulations on your retirement and best wishes for your future.
>
>It does seem like all the well-known names are gradually disappearing however.
>
>Simon.
>
>PS: We know the VMS ecosystem will be well and truly dead when someone
>like Arne comes along and says he's not updating his website any more
>because there's no point. :-)

Arne will be the last Yorkshireman standing. :-)