Hi Ken,

First... Congratulations on your retirement!

Second... Thanks for all you have provided to the HP 3000 community 
over the years!  You have been a valuable asset and will be missed!

And finally... Enjoy life and live it to the fullest!

Please feel free to keep in touch!

John Korb


At 2007-06-26 10:55 PM, Sletten Kenneth W KPWA wrote:
>Hello once again HP3000-L:
>
>I was a frequent contributor 4 quite a few years, but it's been some time
>since I posted anything to 3000-L.
>But now it's time to say sayonara:
>
>After over 20 years of running our entire shop production on HP 3000
>platforms, we completed internal migration of our IMAGE-Transact
>client-server system from our trusty 959KS-400 to Microsoft Windows Server
>and SQL-Server back in September 2005.  There were a number of ''speed
>bumps'' here and there on the road to SQL-Server, but overall I believe it's
>fair to say that we were fully successful (I can't claim much of the credit;
>that goes to the C++, C#, .NET, and SQL experts on our team).
>
>Our production system is now running SQL-2005, C#, and .NET 2.0 on DELL
>servers; with a smattering of Java Script, HTML, and etcetera on the client
>side.  While there continue to be the occasional and usual ''surprises''
>from Microsoft (especially as I recall in moving from one version of .NET to
>another), up-time and performance have been good; certainly ''good enough''
>(no empirical data; just our general consensus). . . .
>Oh, yeah:
>When we turned off our 959, HP totally dropped out of the picture at our
>site (other than HP LJ printers).
>
>SIDEBAR:  Just for grins the other day, after our 959KS-400 was powered down
>in December 2005 and not restarted for 18 months, I fired it up a few days
>ago.  Darned if it AND all those old discs didn't all come up O.K.  Too bad
>it will never be used again.
>
>OBSERVATION:  Was in COSTCO last weekend:  Saw they had the 750 GB Seagate
>FreeAgent Pro 7200.10 external drive with USB 2.0, dual Firewire, eSATA-3.0,
>on-board software, and a 5-year warantee for $249 with coupon.
>Considering HD Movies take a lot of GB;  and that even music CDs can chew up
>400+ MB if U load them ''lossless'' into Windows Media Player on Vista;
>what the heck:  I splurged.
>Afterwards it crossed my mind that on that tiny little drive that U can hold
>in your hand U can store over 1850 times as much as we could put on the old
>404 MB HP 7933 ''washing machines''.  Considering the FreeAgent Pro unit
>(excluding base) fits in a volume approximately one-half of 1 percent the
>size of the old 7933, that means data density from the point of view of the
>overall external package has increased by something on the order of 370,000
>times. . . . .  Even though that's over a period of 20+ years, I still find
>that fact reasonably amazing. . . . .  Not to mention the drop in
>cost-per-GB:  At $0.33 per GB 4 FreeAgent Pro, ya gotta wonder how much
>cheaper consumer stand-alone storage can get in the next 10 years or so.
>
>FINALLY:  After 30 years as a Federalli systems and software engineer, I'm
>retiring this Friday 29 June; followed by an escape to Okanogan County (the
>best of the Old West in WA (but with multiple high-speed ISPs) ). Keeping my
>TurboIMAGE and a few other MPE manuals for old time's sake, but the cold
>objective reality is that chances I will ever seriously work on an HP 3000
>for the rest of my life are I expect pretty slim.
>
>THEREFORE:
>Even after retirement my next 10 years appear to be fairly fully booked
>already.  Sooo. . . :
>Needing to do triage somewhere, at the end of this week I will be
>UNSUBSCRIBING from 3000-L.
>If anyone on the list should 4 whatever reason want to contact me in the
>future, much of the time I should be findable at or thru:
>
>ken-AT-kensletten-DOT-com
>509dash429dash8280
>Box 902
>Winthrop, WA 98862-0902
>
>OFF-TOPIC FOOTNOTE: Over the last few years I recall that several people
>expressed potential interest in joining a Colorado River float trip thru the
>Grand Canyon.... Unfortunately I can't find a good list of who that was
>anymore. So FWIW:
>My private permit does not come up until September 2009, but (probably) in
>September 2008 I am planning to try and put together what amounts to a
>private float trip with one of the commerical outfitters that run the Grand
>Canyon. . . Figure a test run to see if I'm still up to rowing it myself
>might not be a bad idea. No guarantees on schedule or available seats yet,
>but I will be trying to start to put a trip together in the next few months.
>
>Cheers,
>Ken Sletten
>Former SIGRAPID Chair,
>Former SIGIMAGE Chair,
>Former HP e3000 user.
>
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