From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 4909 invoked from network); 27 Nov 2022 18:59:38 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 27 Nov 2022 18:59:38 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51DEE4178E; Mon, 28 Nov 2022 04:59:31 +1000 (AEST) Received: from freefriends.org (freefriends.org [96.88.95.60]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B7E2B41786 for ; Mon, 28 Nov 2022 04:59:25 +1000 (AEST) X-Envelope-From: arnold@skeeve.com Received: from freefriends.org (freefriends.org [96.88.95.60]) by freefriends.org (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id 2ARIxK1q016934 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Sun, 27 Nov 2022 11:59:21 -0700 Received: (from arnold@localhost) by freefriends.org (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id 2ARIxKqL016933; Sun, 27 Nov 2022 11:59:20 -0700 From: arnold@skeeve.com Message-Id: <202211271859.2ARIxKqL016933@freefriends.org> X-Authentication-Warning: frenzy.freefriends.org: arnold set sender to arnold@skeeve.com using -f Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2022 11:59:20 -0700 To: ron@ronnatalie.com, phil@ultimate.com, jpl.jpl@gmail.com References: <8f278bf8-de57-4e77-a3b8-d007d7c3a446@app.fastmail.com> <20221126191827.GV18011@mcvoy.com> <764dda08-f358-4c74-8056-ef8fc80bcaac@app.fastmail.com> <20221126232323.GX18011@mcvoy.com> <20221127001714.GY18011@mcvoy.com> <202211270443.2AR4hofO067295@ultimate.com> In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.5 7/5/10 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID-Hash: 3BPVRKTOR3YWJGN6BVKVWFDVFIKTEMVM X-Message-ID-Hash: 3BPVRKTOR3YWJGN6BVKVWFDVFIKTEMVM X-MailFrom: arnold@skeeve.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: tuhs@tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: Reaction to the 3B2 at Bell Labs List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Georgia Tech got two 3B20s. They did very little more than consume electricity and look impressive. I wanted to port 4.2BSD to them, but that never got off the ground. "Ron Natalie" wrote: > > >. But everyone knew what the J stood for. The 3B2 served as a doorstop. > > Shades of the jerq terminal. The J prefix persiste in the code long > after the nickname was quashed. > > > Being in charge of the Rutgers computer center, we were gifted a lot of > ATT hardware. We had one 3B20 (now that was a pure piece of phone > equipment, you shut it down by turning a switch inside and holding the > button down until it twanged. Just like putting an old 303 modem into > loop back). We also got three 3B5's (noted for the one installed in > the New Brunswick computing room that got completely drenched when a > pipe burst and kept on running) and countless of the 3B2s. I chortled > in that unless you were logged in as root, you couldn't work the power > switch. Yanking the cord out of the wall was still and option.