HP moves enterprise support, seeks buyouts
Bob Chase, a former engineer for HP’s enterprise support team, reports that the entire HP Enterprise Server Support Team “working […]
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This just in: COBOL is not dead
On the most antique Saturday Night Live shows, Chevy Chase reads fake news. With each broadcast he’d repeat this joke: […]
PARSEC curates Tru64 open source tools
The PARSEC Group has curated a set of open source tools for Tru64. It’s a set of software that the […]
Moving PDF to text on VMS requires super tools
OpenVMS sometimes sticks around long enough to need a fresh set of talons to grab its data. That’s what Wesley […]
VMS open source work drives into summer months
The small band of OpenVMS devotees meets this Thursday June 18 to swap notes on open source work for the […]
SPARCstation 10 pushed Solaris onto desktops
Twenty-eight years ago this month, the first SPARC-based desktop computers were delivering multiprocessing for Solaris and SunOS. The month of […]
Open source, private tools move 3000 text to PDF
HP 3000s still contribute data in corporate environments. A Sanface Software solution, text2pdf, creates PDF files out of HP 3000 […]
Legacy platform flies beyond its expert’s career
Out in the Pacific Northwest, the aircraft giant Boeing continues to build products. One part of the operation in the […]
Solaris recovery tip on ROM leads to OpenBoot magic
Legacy era hardware can have hard problems. Batteries die in older systems, and sometimes those components just can’t be replaced. […]
3000s get replacement processors to stay online
There’s still a legacy community for production-grade HP 3000s. Some owners are working to keep their systems online and using […]