From: b4@gewt.net (Cory Smelosky)
Subject: [TUHS] Need your help for 2019
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2017 20:15:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1488600957.3778065.900016144.1AD1D2BC@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170304031608.GB1715@minnie.tuhs.org>
On Fri, Mar 3, 2017, at 19:16, Warren Toomey wrote:
> Mid-year 2019 is the 50th anniversary of the creation of Unix and I've
> been quietly agitating for something to be done to celebrate this. Up to
> now, there's been little response.
>
> The original Unix user's group, Usenix, will hold its Annual Technical
> Conference on the west coast of the US at this time, so it would make
> sense
> to do something in conjunction with this conference. Some suggestions:
>
> - a terminal room with a bunch of period terminals: ASR-33s, -37s,
> VT100s,
> VT102s, VT220s
> - these connected to real/emulated Unix systems either locally or via a
> terminal server and telnet to remotely emulated systems
> - some graphical terminals: Sun pizza boxes, a Blit would be great
> - if possible, some actual real PDP-11s, VAXen
> - emulated systems: V1 to V7 Unix, 32V, the BSDs etc. In fact there are
> plenty of Unix versions that we could run in emulated mode.
>
> - Unix of course was one of the systems used to implement the Arpanet
> protcols, so it would be interesting to get some of the real/emulated
> systems networked together
> - how about an emulated UUCP network with Usenet on top of it, and
> some mail/news clients on the emulated systems.
>
> - retro workshops/tutorials: how to edit with ed, using nroff, posting
> a Usenet article, dealing with bang paths.
>
> I'm proposing to gather a bunch of people to start the ball rolling on
> the
> technical/demonstration side. We'd need people:
> - with terminals, portable PDP-11s and VAXen, Sun boxen
> - prepared to set up emulated systems
> - who can help bring the networking (UUCP, Usenet, Arpanet) back to life
> - willing to write and run workshops that show off this old technology
> - to help set up terminal servers and all the RS-232 to telnet stuff
>
> Some of this we can start doing now, e.g. rebuild an emulated Arpanet,
> UUCP,
> Usenet, get emulated systems up, build front-end telnet interfaces.
>
> Is there anybody willing to sign up for this? I think once we have some
> momentum, we can tell the Usenix people and get some buy-in from them.
>
> Post back and/or e-mail me if you can help. Thanks, Warren
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Where on the west coast?
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Cory Smelosky
b4 at gewt.net
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-04 4:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-04 3:16 Warren Toomey
2017-03-04 3:41 ` Steve Johnson
2017-03-04 4:15 ` Cory Smelosky [this message]
2017-03-04 4:20 ` Warren Toomey
2017-03-04 4:49 ` Cory Smelosky
2017-03-04 8:21 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2017-03-04 8:24 ` jsteve
2017-03-06 0:57 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2017-03-06 3:44 ` Jason Stevens
2017-03-06 11:16 ` Paul Ruizendaal
[not found] ` <20170306113704.GA14536@minnie.tuhs.org>
2017-03-06 13:25 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2017-03-06 14:15 ` [TUHS] jor1k was:Re: " Jacob Goense
2017-03-04 11:09 ` [TUHS] " Jacob Goense
2017-03-04 17:41 ` Charles Anthony
2017-03-06 17:51 ` John Floren
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