Re: Linux Counter

From: Marc Casillo <frashii@frashii.com>
Date: Sat Sep 16 2006 - 20:26:48 AKDT

haha... I remember looking at that tag and joking with Vic Kapella that
the pdp11 cost ALMOST as much as one of the Vax/VMS tape drives :P

Marc
aka AXMAC@ACAD[1,2,3]
aka frash on EFnet irc

Kevin P. Foote wrote:
> \> Remember when the MathVax moved to DigitalUnix? Boy, those were the
> \> days. Whatever happened to that old alphastation, anyway?
> \>
> \> leif @ saturn.math.alaska.edu
> \
> \Hmm... if it was an as200 4/166 then it's probably been running RH 7.3
> \Alpha in Enrollment Computing Support for the past couple of years (I set
> \it up there). I know that particular box in ECS was very briefly known as
> \cwolf.uaa.alaska.edu, running VMS about the time Pam Woods and the crew
> \moved from the vax (acad2.uaa.alaska.edu, aka orion.uaa.alaska.edu) to an
> \Alphaserver 2100a. They got a pair of the 2100a's, and the other one was
> \ursa.uaa.alaska.edu, running DU.
> \
> \Ahh, the memories...
> \Mike
>
> Naa.. Saturn was retired around Feb/March either 2000 or 2001. Thats after
> you left I'm sure Mike.
> One interesting thing is that uaa math/comp sci kept a pdp11 rack (from
> some previous machine) around untill 2004 sometime. The inventory price
> tag attached to the barcode on that rack was around $53000. Man that was a
> pain to retrofit dell stuff into.. even at that price :-)
>
>
>
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