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From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] How low can you go?
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 12:09:02 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060418115354.R17763@orthanc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <34c3ba0c83d7a546d09646cc28c6673f@coraid.com>

> One of my off-the-cuff polls.  I had uucp mail in 1983.  What's the
> earlist everyone had email

1981, MTS on the Amdahl at the U of Alberta (UALTAMTS.BITNET).

> and did it pass thru uucico?

Not originally.  When the $MESS command was implemented, all non-BITNET
mail was gatewayed through 'alberta'.  I think this was circa 1983.  I
didn't run native UUCP until 1984.

I also had the misfortune of bringing up UREP on a Sun 3/160 to implement
the last node added to BITNET in Canada (ATHA.BITNET).

--lyndon


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-04-18 18:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-17 19:08 [9fans] Google Summer of Code uriel
2006-04-17 19:10 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-04-17 19:21 ` Christoph Lohmann
2006-04-17 19:48   ` uriel
2006-04-17 19:51     ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2006-04-17 20:03     ` Tim Wiess
2006-04-17 19:57       ` Bruce Ellis
2006-04-17 20:10       ` Harri Haataja
2006-04-17 20:21       ` uriel
2006-04-17 22:48         ` Lou Kamenov
2006-04-17 22:57         ` Jack Johnson
2006-04-18  0:56         ` Dan Cross
2006-04-17 21:16       ` Enrique Soriano
2006-04-17 21:25         ` [9fans] How low can you go? Michael Baldwin
2006-04-17 21:36           ` Christoph Lohmann
2006-04-17 21:58             ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-04-17 22:13               ` Don Bailey
2006-04-17 22:58                 ` Jack Johnson
2006-04-17 23:07                   ` Don Bailey
2006-04-18  9:04               ` William Staniewicz
2006-04-18 17:21                 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-04-18 17:46                   ` Brantley Coile
2006-04-18 17:56                     ` Bruce Ellis
2006-04-18 18:09                     ` Lyndon Nerenberg [this message]
2006-04-18 21:03                       ` Dan Cross
2006-04-19 10:19                         ` Dave Eckhardt
2006-04-19 12:16                     ` Wes Kussmaul
2006-04-18 18:50                   ` lucio
2006-04-17 22:35         ` [9fans] Google Summer of Code Devon H. O'Dell
2006-04-17 22:17     ` Andrew Simmons
2006-04-17 22:37     ` Christopher Nielsen
2006-04-19 14:27       ` Paweł Lasek
2006-04-18  5:24 ` ems
2006-04-19 14:07 ` Rian Hunter

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