[TUHS] Bell Labs Sysadmins

[Henry Bent]

Are there any former Bell Labs sysadmins on this list?  My father was the
sysadmin for hoh* (Crawford Hill, mostly the radio astronomy folks) in the
mid-late '80s and early '90s and I would be especially interested to hear
from hou* (Holmdel, what a building!) folks but also ihn* (Indian Hill) and
the like.  I'm very curious about what life was like on the ground, so to
speak.

I'll start off with a quick anecdote.  When I started college I began
working for the computing center doing menial jobs.  There was an older,
ex-army guy leading the networking department who extolled the virtues of
the VAX up and down; I think Oberlin would have kept the VAX 6620 running
VMS 5.5 forever if he had his way.  Anyway, I mentioned his position to my
father and he told me that the best thing he ever did was replace the VAX
systems (and the endless mounting/remounting of RL02s for user data) with
early generation Sun 4 systems.

-Henry
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