[OT] Converting to LiveCode from VAX VMS

2022-01-11 Thread Ralph DiMola via use-livecode
Well my old VAX/VMS friend has finally died. It ran 24/7 for 26 years and was only rebooted every 2 or three years(power outage or disk replacement). It's either a bad disk drawing too much from the old power supply or the supply itself needs to be re-capped. Fires up and boots but shuts off aft

Re: [OT] Converting to LiveCode from VAX VMS

2022-01-11 Thread Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode
👍👍 > On Jan 11, 2022, at 3:31 PM, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode > wrote: > > Well my old VAX/VMS friend has finally died. It ran 24/7 for 26 years and was > only rebooted every 2 or three years(power outage or disk replacement). It's > either a bad disk drawing too much from the old power sup

Re: [OT] Converting to LiveCode from VAX VMS

2022-01-11 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
I love that story. On 1/11/22 2:31 PM, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode wrote: Well my old VAX/VMS friend has finally died. It ran 24/7 for 26 years and was only rebooted every 2 or three years(power outage or disk replacement). It's either a bad disk drawing too much from the old power supply or

Re: [OT] Converting to LiveCode from VAX VMS

2022-01-11 Thread Jerry Jensen via use-livecode
And just think of what to do with the extra floor space! > On Jan 11, 2022, at 12:31 PM, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode > wrote: > > Well my old VAX/VMS friend has finally died. It ran 24/7 for 26 years and was > only rebooted every 2 or three years(power outage or disk replacement). It's > e

Re: [OT] Converting to LiveCode from VAX VMS

2022-01-11 Thread Tom Glod via use-livecode
A great testimonial for Livecode On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 6:58 PM Jerry Jensen via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > And just think of what to do with the extra floor space! > > > On Jan 11, 2022, at 12:31 PM, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> w

Re: [OT] Converting to LiveCode from VAX VMS

2022-01-11 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 1/11/22 3:57 PM, Jerry Jensen via use-livecode wrote: And just think of what to do with the extra floor space! ...but I digress... back in the 80s I did a contract writing a c preprocessor for a guy who made a bunch of money off a video game. His accountant said he should buy a house, and