A Hobbyist DECnet Network

[Zane H. Healy]

At 3:41 PM -0800 12/8/05, Robert Armstrong wrote:
>   I know I'm not the first to think of this; in particular, I've had a few
>email discussions recently with Johnny Billquist about HECnet,
>
>	http://www.update.uu.se/~bqt/hecnet.html
>
>At some point I'd like to link up with HECnet, but right now Johnny is
>having ISP problems and it sounds like HECnet is down to one or two nodes.
>
>   Are there any other hobbyist DECnet associations that are going strong?

HECnet's still around?  I thought it had died off without ever really 
getting started.  I wonder why on earth I quit messing with it 
then...  Actually taking a quick look at the HECnet mail list 
archives on my box, probably was a combination of the mail list dying 
off (unless I got dropped), and real life taking to much of my time 
:^/

>   I have a fair amount of Internet bandwidth available at my location, and I
>can set aside a VS4000 VLC or model 90 to serve as a dedicated Phase IV
>routing node.

Hmmm, I wonder what I did with the Storage Works shelf that I had for 
the VS4000 60 or 90 I was going to use.  It's around here somewhere, 
hopefully with the drives still installed, just not sure if it's 
here, or in storage.  I know the VLC, 60, and 90 are all in storage, 
but I know where, and they're easy to get to :^)  Or maybe I could 
manage an AlphaStation 200 4/233 as I have a pair sitting around 
doing nothing.

Needless to say, I'd be interested in a Hobbyist DECnet, if I can 
find the time to put a node together.

What I can't manage is putting a physical PDP-11 on it, though I 
might be able to do an emulated one.

			Zane


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