[geeks] nice VAX

[Mike Hebel]

Dave McGuire wrote:

> On Wednesday, November 20, 2002, at 09:06 PM, Mike Hebel wrote:
>
> > Oddly enough, due to money restrictions it's going to have to come out
> > of storage.  Hopefully my new job makes enough for me to at least turn
> > it on once in a while. ;-)
>
>
>   Cool!  What OS are you gonna run on it?

Actually it was running NetBSD when I got it but I was given tapes for 
VMS so I don't know.  This is not going to be any time soon so I might 
plan for VMS even though I understand NetBSD (for the most part) right now.

If you check the archives I believe I mentioned that there was an audio 
processing board available at one time for these (8khz mono).  I played 
with the idea briefly of making it run the systems of the house, heat 
the basement at the very least, and play odd sounds at random intervals. 
  (I've seen my old 68k PowerBook play MP3's with a hard-coded MP3 app 
so anything is possible... ;-)

But that's not unti I get back on my feet here...I think the depression 
is finally over.  Now if I can just keep the looters off my back. (Atlas 
Shrugged reference.)

Mike Hebel