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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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13 August 2002 - 9:09 am
We have a couple of IBM servers here at work running Windows NT 4 that run all of the lab testing, and they're slated to by upgraded to Win2k later this year (and one of them will be replaced by a newer dual-processor machine), but these computers are rather the exception than the rule here in terms of age. In the storeroom a few feet from me is the old VAX that ran all the lab tests until they switched to those IBM servers. It needs to be kept running in case they need to get old test data off of it, so it is taking up quite a bit of space in there, and it's accessories take up even more space. For example, there's a big tape drive for it that stands about chest high and has a swing up top for loading tapes into. It's pretty cool.
But what is perhaps even cooler is the machine running the water valve tests upstairs. It's a PDP-11! Okay, it isn't the coolest thing in the world, but how many of you have ever seen one? Plus, should everything work out, this one will get me a free steak lunch. You see the PDP-11 upstairs is slated to be retired in the next few weeks (most likely to be replaced by an old 486 or Pentium computer), and when it's gone, our whole department is getting a trip to Logan's Steakhouse for lunch. Now I just have to hope that Nick can finish porting the water valve test to a Windows platform in the next two weeks.
Posted by on 13 August 2002 at 9:10 AM
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