Comment Re:39 years and counting (Score 1) 162
Being a sysadmin may be a thankless job but I've enjoyed the bejeezus out of it since the mid 80's or so. My buttocks have been planted at three places since the beginning.
+1 for the 780. Big as three-four fridges (depending on options) and having multiple RA60's? That's when you know you're living large, my friend.
The first systems I managed were 11/780's running VMS and PDP's with IAS. I remember the admin that I replaced on the 780, as a parting gift he removed (well, del - alas, DCL, where hast thou gone from my life?) the mount command. No problem - I just load up a tape and restore... the... file. Oh, wait. My solution at the time was getting it from another server I had access to via kermit. I've still got a couple of the orange (and a couple of the later grey) three ring binders that documented VMS; I lived in those things. Then this thing called the Internet came along with all of it's fancy schmancy online docs.
VMS&IAS -> Unix -> Windows ("Can you manage these couple of Windows servers too? There's only a few of them...") -> Unix. If you can get the basics down then the details of all the variations of various OS kinda/sorta fall in to place.
You kids give me a number so I can call somebody to grow me a lawn... then you get off of it.
+1 for the 780. Big as three-four fridges (depending on options) and having multiple RA60's? That's when you know you're living large, my friend.
The first systems I managed were 11/780's running VMS and PDP's with IAS. I remember the admin that I replaced on the 780, as a parting gift he removed (well, del - alas, DCL, where hast thou gone from my life?) the mount command. No problem - I just load up a tape and restore... the... file. Oh, wait. My solution at the time was getting it from another server I had access to via kermit. I've still got a couple of the orange (and a couple of the later grey) three ring binders that documented VMS; I lived in those things. Then this thing called the Internet came along with all of it's fancy schmancy online docs.
VMS&IAS -> Unix -> Windows ("Can you manage these couple of Windows servers too? There's only a few of them...") -> Unix. If you can get the basics down then the details of all the variations of various OS kinda/sorta fall in to place.
You kids give me a number so I can call somebody to grow me a lawn... then you get off of it.
