thanks VSI

[mark.preston]

I guess i've come full circle now that i've retired. I started out in college on DEC hardware and my first job was with PDP/VAX hardware. I was a sysmgr for over 12 years before Boeing started replacing VAX/Alphas with HP hardware. Since I was running oracle rdbms on VMS and filling the DBA role i switch to DBA full time and left Boeing. Now that i've retired 30 years later i discovered OpenVMS is still around and signed up for the community license. I have openVMS running under KVM/QEMU on Fedora 38. I'm remembering more about the OS than i thought i would and discovered i sorely need a DEC keyboard as i miss that GOLD key so much lol. Thanks you VSI for making this available. Maybe i'll come out of retirement once i dust off my OpenVMS skill set.

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> Today my LOGIN.COM is 25 lines and I can only remember half of it.

   Mine is about 350 lines and my fraction remembered if tiny.  Much of
it is obsolete, so forgetting is no great loss.


> [...] I think the only missing LK201 specific key is the - for DEL W.
> [...]

   If you have two keys where you need three, it's hard to avoid
losing some function.  Hence my preference for an Apple keypad.

[anachronda]

If you have two keys where you need three, it's hard to avoid
losing some function. Hence my preference for an Apple keypad.

yeah, well, issue i keep having at work is folks plugging a pc usb keyboard into our itanium box. in addition to the missing keypad key, the <> key next to z is missing and i find myself unable to spontaneously enter c code, because i have no angle brackets.

not that i'm bitter or anything.