Time to reskill then (Score 1)

Let's see, what did I do today. Logged into my VAX 6630 cluster, it was still working. Checked my other 6 VAX/micro-VAXen servers, still working. Changed the UCX SMTP config to use the new gateways, no reboots required. modified the backup tape script to write HTML then copy to the OSU web server, hi-tech stuff today.

The fan on the D/R box (used to be live) eventually packed in after 15 yrs continuous usage this week. Shoddy quality there.

Some of our systems only have 2 years uptime. We physically moved them to new datacenters 2 yrs ago. Even VAXen are not magic.

Approximate cost to migrate apps of these servers - high millions. Really! One app alone is going to cost about 15 big ones. It's a home grown highly specialised thing. T'other is a staff rostering system used by thousands of staff.

My next computer is going to be a 5 node micro-VAXen cluster. When we decommision the beasts.