[Info-vax] Whither VMS?

[Robin Fairbairns]

 Bob Eager <rde42 at spamcop.net> writes:
>On Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:39:42 +0000, Robin Fairbairns wrote:
>
>> the spooks said that the ict people weren't allowed to look at the
>> machine while running[*], so when it crashed, the only hint came from
>> the console output: by the time the support people got to it, the memory
>> had been wiped.
>
>I have a memory module from an Atlas - wonder if there's anything 
>confidential still in it?   :-)

entirely possible, if your module came from the awre atlas (all the
others were research machines, except possibly the cadcentre one,
which was supposed to be for commercial development).

somehow, i doubt that any of the awre machine escaped being ground
into fine powder and then baked in the reactor.  or something.
-- 
Robin Fairbairns, Cambridge