At 3:36 PM -0500 11/14/08, Ritenour, Steve wrote:

>I guess that just shows you how few people are left.  I know it's been
>over a year since I've logged on to the 3000's here and expect them to
be unplugged any day now.


Any day, or week, or month, or year now: that is when a lot of the 
community is unplugging their systems. So very many, however, have 
only this answer, and not much work to show for yet.

As for the number of replies, only 545 people subscribe to this list. 
Of those, I'd think that many don't have a 3000 to unplug. There's 
none going dark here in our offices. We just got offered a free 937. 
The shipping will cost us $100, and the license transfer $400. 
Someday, maybe, that hardware will be able to boot up MPE/iX 7.5. 
Something for OpenMPE to look into.

I did post a question earlier on this topic, asking others to share a 
story. In case you missed it:

On 11/13/08, Ron Seybold wrote:

>Friday is the seventh anniversary of HP's exit announcement from the 
>3000 community. I'm writing an article about this event that changed 
>so many of our lives.
>
>Where were you when you first heard about this? Can you share a few 
>lines with us all, so we can remember how far we've come together 
>since then?
>
>Congratulations on making it this far in the 3000's Transition, and 
>thanks for your help.

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