Subject: Re: Compaq buys Digital
To: J. Buck Caldwell <buck_c@polygon.com>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/27/1998 15:29:04
On January 27, J. Buck Caldwell wrote:
> >   I believe you've misinterpreted me.
> 
> No, but perhaps you did.. that post was meant in humor, I just *HATE* smilies.

  Ahh...sorry.   [oops...I started to type a smily there...I caught myself!]

> I know... I know... The software company I work at now is one of the top producers of LAT protocol
> drivers for PC... you'd be amazed how many VAXen I work with every day. And before that, I worked as
> a Field Service tech for Emulex, servicing their now-discontinued HDs and DAO1 HSC controller cards,
> mostly for Southwestern Bell Publications (the Yellow Pages folks). They had nifty stuff - like a 30
> node VAXCluster with two 9000's and 3 6650's, not to mention a butload of 8000's and around 24
> HSC-70s.

  Cool!  9000's rock.  I'm considering road-tripping out to Wisconsin
with a friend to rescue the one we've been talking about for the past
few days.

> I do know VAX - I just sometimes forget that not all of the people running NetBSD are
> hobbyists/retrocomp.

  Well, I like that, too...but unfortunately my hobby time has
dwindled to near nothing lately...so all that's left is the work.

> % <-Picasso smiley

  *chuckle*


            -Dave