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From: Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com>
To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>,
	Computer Old Farts Followers <coff@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [COFF] [TUHS] Coastal cultures, collaboration, creativity and Sun vs DEC.
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 18:34:09 -0700	[thread overview]
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Moving to COFF, but Brian Dear's "The Friendly Orange Glow", about Plato,
talks a lot about some of the cool stuff happening in the middle of the
country.
https://www.amazon.com/Friendly-Orange-Glow-Untold-Cyberculture/dp/1101973633/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

And later, of course, NCSA Mosaic.


On Wed, Jan 12, 2022 at 4:15 PM Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote:

> On Tuesday, 11 January 2022 at 14:34:16 -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 11, 2022 at 1:37 PM Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> It seems like Unix is largely a child of the coasts.
> >
> > We can add the eastern coast of Australia, where the original
> > Wollongong group made the first V6 port to the Interdata 7/32 (not
> > to be confused with the Labs port to the 8/32).
>
> To be fair, in the case of Australia almost everybody is on the east
> coast, though we have had our share of FreeBSD core team members from
> the "west coast" (which is really only Perth).
>
> Greg
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