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[69.109.130.206]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id v5sm2832126qtq.26.2021.03.18.19.59.37 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 18 Mar 2021 19:59:37 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable From: Earl Baugh Mime-Version: 1.0 (1.0) Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 22:59:36 -0400 Message-Id: <0C0895E9-0C26-44C9-93D0-DBFCE673A023@gmail.com> References: <202103190206.12J264Af020523@elf.torek.net> In-Reply-To: <202103190206.12J264Af020523@elf.torek.net> To: Chris Torek X-Mailer: iPhone Mail (18D61) Subject: Re: [TUHS] Surprised about Unix System V in the 80's - so sparse! X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" My first job out of college was at a company (1986ish) that did seismic and m= eteorological modeling and monitoring. At college we were on csnet ( on our= Vax, running BSD 4.2 ). At work, I was deliriously happy to have my own Su= n 3/110 to work on, vs having to fight to share the Vax. However, I was ha= ving email and Usenet withdrawal... so after completing a 6 month scheduled t= ask In about a month ( thank you lex and yacc :-) ) I was looking for things= to fill the time and asked my boss about email. He said, well there is this= dedicated line up to Virginia that he used every once in a month and checke= d his email.. and sometimes helped the seismologists pull some data. He tho= ught the folks on the other end might be able to help. He gave me the name a= nd phone number - it was Rick Adams. ( and yes, this was a dedicated circuit= into seismo... well the Annex box physically right next to it :-) ).=20 Shall we say, I called fairly quickly, and was working with David Comay who h= elped support things there ( the center for seismic studies - css ) and got a= n early version of CSLIP... Then excitedly ( though a tad nervously) learne= d how to rebuild a Sun 3/110 kernel and get it installed. =20 The newsfeed and email speed, shall we say, didn=E2=80=99t suck =F0=9F=99=82= Oh, and btw, seismo wasn=E2=80=99t uunet. The original uunet was a sequent 8= processor box ( I believe ). One of my trips to DC I got to visit with Davi= d and saw the box as it was there at css with seismo. ( if memory serves me,= it was in Ricks office ). Rick had gotten permission to host it there to =E2= =80=9Csee if there was a business model for providing internet access=E2=80=9D= , which now I think we can definitely answer yes :-)=20 There still is a seismo, but obviously the box isn=E2=80=99t the sun 3/2xx s= eries machine it was then.=20 Earl=20 Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 18, 2021, at 10:27 PM, Chris Torek wrote: >=20 > =EF=BB=BFWe used to say: "Seismo bangs everybody" >=20 > (then they became uunet, then Worldcom bought them)