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Aww, my oldest domain name hicom.org was 33 years old yesterday.
It was the only VAX System that Kevin Mitnick ever had a legitimate account on, he lasted less than a week.
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Etwas aufgeräumter und von vorne. 
1x VAXstation 3100
4x VAXstation 4000 60
1x VAXstation 4000 90A
1x DEC 3000
1x MicroVAX 3100-30
1x MicroVAX 3100-80
1x InfoServer 100
1x AlphaServer DS15
1x DECserver 200/MC
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Das war übrigens der #DEC "Tower of Power" vor dem Einladen ins Auto. Und das ist nur ein Teil des Konvoluts.
Muss in Zukunft weniger Retro-Hardware kaufen - der Platz wird sonst knapp. 
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So, morgen fahre ich den #DEC / #digital / #VAX Kram abholen. 
Weiß noch nicht, wo es am Ende finanziell liegen wird, hab aber nur begrenztes Budget und kann evtl. nicht das komplette Konvolut nehmen. Werde aber versuchen, so viel wie möglich zum Weiterverteilen mitzunehmen. Mehr dann vermutlich morgen gegen Nachmittag.
Ich habe gerade ein paar #retro bzw. #vintage Computer abzugeben.
Folgenden Maschinen suchen ein neues Zuhause:
* #Sun #sparc station IPC
* Sun Ultra 5 (64 bit sparc)
* HP 712/60 (gecko #PARISC)
* #MicroVAX II (BA123)
Die Geräte müssten in Bochum abgeholt werden.
Von der #VAX habe ich gerade noch keine Bilder, da die noch im Keller sitzt.
Mir genügt es, wenn die Maschinen ein liebevolles Zuhause finden, und nicht dem Elektroschrott anheim fallen müssen.
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If you kill your kid by not allowing them to be #vaccinated you can get a full time grifter job in the #antivax movement but if a #school #shooter kills your kid you'll get smeared by the same people that make anti #vax child killers their heroes. the commonality is they all love it when kids die.
![Them: God, please save humanity from the ravages of disease and suffering.
God: *creates super smart scientists who
create vaccines*
Them: Ew no. That's poison.
[painting of Jesus laying on a rock near a tree reaching out]](https://files.mastodon.online/media_attachments/files/114/179/900/991/452/479/original/274756c85a3b0378.png "Them: God, please save humanity from the ravages of disease and suffering.
God: *creates super smart scientists who
create vaccines*
Them: Ew no. That's poison.
[painting of Jesus laying on a rock near a tree reaching out]")
Did I just do a #Markdown conversion of Mark Russinovich’s seminal 1998 article on #WindowsNT (and by extension, all modern versions of #MicrosoftWindows)’ debt to #DEC’s #VMS #OperatingSystem? Just so I could have a decent copy apart from the dusty carried-over archived version at https://www.ITProToday.com/server-virtualization/windows-nt-and-vms-the-rest-of-the-story ?
Why yes, yes I did. Why not?
@NanoRaptor Heck, the VAXstation was a very cute, little, and *real* #VAX
After the #FDA canx'd its advisory board meeting on next season's #flu #vax recommendations, the agency made it's own decision and notified manufacturers without outside input. https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-fda-makes-recommendations-influenza-vaccines-manufacturers-2025-03-13/
It is a rare day. Rosenkrantz has been resetting to firmware so we bought another VAX 4000-60 to try sort it out and this one is the cleanest we've ever seen.
Folks, if you or you kids can get ANY vaccines or boosters that they will need, get them NOW. I think they will first target HPV, so definitely make sure your kids get that. They can give the first dose at 9. And you are eligible until you are 45. Also, if you are Gen X and might only have had one dose of measles vaccine (was the standard for a while) or if you might have missed the MMR at any point, GO GET ONE TODAY. You CAN ask your doctor to titer you, which is fine, but if you don't have time or medical insurance, you can also just go get the vaccine.
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@Holberg It is not, it's now the "DCU Centre," after a local bank, which bizarrely is the surviving employee credit union of the long-defunct Digital Equipment Corp.
I feel like Mastodon people might appreciate that oddball piece of #ComputerScience #history.
This is kinda fun for ex-DEC / Digital UK alumni or users - They are making a movie too!
https://www.readingmuseum.org.uk/digital60
I found it trying to find old DECUS programmes for the UK/Ireland when we did the annual conferences at Warwick Uni.
Your VAX in a Cloud is Ready - For many people of a certain age, the DEC VAX was the first computer they ever use... - https://hackaday.com/2025/01/28/your-vax-in-a-cloud-is-ready/ #retrocomputing #openvms #dec #vax #vms
Hackaday · Your VAX In A Cloud Is ReadyFor many people of a certain age, the DEC VAX was the first computer they ever used. They were everywhere, powerful for their day, and relatively affordable for schools and businesses. These minico…
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@jfmezei One of the reasons VAX is comparatively slow involves the condition codes, including the carry bit.
~Every VAX instruction is a test instruction, if you want it to be.
But if you break that part of the VAX design to make the architecture go faster, you might as well also break, err, alter some other VAX architectural design constraints. After some other work including Prism, that architectural replacement was Alpha.
As assemblers go, VAX is quite nice.
But assembler as a choice for app development started to fade around the era of the 3GL vs Assembler debates; the early to mid 1980s.
Section 8.4 has details of the VAX condition codes: