Re: VMS 30th anniversary 'Oldest VMS system' contest

Rich Jordan wrote:
On April 22nd, HP supposedly selected the winner of an Itanium server
based on the age of the oldest running system registered with them.

I thought the whole idea of celebrating the oldest hunk of VMS hardware still running was a bit silly anyway. They'd be better off looking for the oldest VMS sites - ie people who have been using VMS for a long time but have continued to upgrade to newer hardware. The oldest system running is likely to end up being either someone's castoff that is now being used by a hobbyist, or some site that has an old VMS box in the corner which isn't really important anymore but nobody's gotten around to turning it off. If VMS was actually important to your operation chances are you're not still running an 11/780.

I may have had a shot at being the longest running VMS site in Canada (since Feb 1980) but we certainly scrapped that 11/780 (indeed all the VAXen) quite a few years ago. It's now a mixture of Alphas and Itaniums - the oldest box I'm still using is a DS10.
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