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N2TUG 2024

Bill Honaker

On May 2nd, N2TUG’s members came together for our 2024 meeting.  This year, the larger community of NonStop is celebrating 50 years since Tandem Computers first formed to create the NonStop platform, and we took the opportunity to celebrate!  Our theme was “Golden: 50 Years of NonStop.”

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Connect 2023 NonStop Technical Boot Camp

Bill Honaker

A mere week ago (as I write this), Connect held its annual showcase NonStop user meeting. As I first sat down to write about it, I realized it’s the first time since 1995 that the annual ITUG or Connect NonStop meeting has been held outside of California

July-August 2023

N2TUG 2023

Bill Honaker

It’s been a while since we reported on an N2TUG meeting, which was in June of 2019. For reasons we all know too well, there was no meeting held in the intervening years, but that changed on June 15th this year!

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For the Sake of Modernization

Randall Becker

NonStop TBC 2022 kicked off a new round of modernization with a friendly competition to come up with a sustainable design to replace SCOBOL requesters with the latest and greatest tech available on and off NonStop.

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Reflections on a Virtual Users’ Group

Bill Honaker

Just a few months ago, N2TUG was starting to plan for our early summer meeting.  We had barely started the task when events outside our control made our usual in-person, Vendor-sponsored meeting unlikely at best.  We knew we wouldn’t be able to hold it in summer, and started considering the Fall.  In hindsight, even that was a bit too optimistic.