Re: "Network tape drive" for VMS

On Jul 21, 8:47 am, baldrick <nospam@[127.0.0.1]> wrote:
johnwalla...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Jul 18, 12:01 am, Mark McIntyre <markmcint...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
...
"Lights out computing" [1] isn't a phrase you hear much these days,
but once upon a time, there was a widespread goal of keeping people
OUT of the computer room as much as was possible, because a routinely
...

[1]http://www.it-analysis.com/technology/infrastructure/content.php?cid=...

Ah yes I remember that. I pioneered some of that using VMS and Robomon
as was (from CIS, Heroix now Itheon) and doing dial out to pagers, using
high capacity tape drives (not natively available from Digital at the
time) (circa 1991) and look what happened?

Yep, VMS was run out of the data centre, to be replaced with those boxes
that when remote desktop fails, some one has to go in and power cycle
the damn thing, usually by pulling *all* the redundant power leads.

--
nclews at csc dot com aka Mr. CP Charges
"The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour
to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly
ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology,
led them into it in the first place."- DNA

Welcome back indeed.

As Kerry said, everything old is new, and vice versa. Your quote from
Douglas Adams is just as current in the Vista era as it was in the
Win95 era when he said it. Then and now, it could have benefited a
little from a few extra words: "peddling second-rate technology
borrowed from other people<<"...
.