On 08/25/2018 02:59 PM, Steve Mynott wrote:
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> On Sat, 25 Aug 2018 at 19:45, Steve Mynott <steve.mynott@gmail.com 
> <mailto:steve.mynott@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     Back in the early 90s before the FSF withdrew the service due to
>     misuse it was possible to write off to them to get a free shell
>     account on "hal" as I did. I recall having to telnet through one
>     of three gateway systems so assume it was on its own little subnet.
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>     But I can't remember what sort of system (hardware or OS) it was
>     now however and wondered if anyone else did?
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> https://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/Manuals/finger-1.37/html_node/finger_17.html 
> mentions "spiff" (which rings a bell as one of the systems) as a 
> "Sony" which must have been a NEWS-OS (BSD) system.
> -- 
> Steve Mynott <steve.mynott@gmail.com <mailto:steve.mynott@gmail.com>>
> cv25519/ECF8B611205B447E091246AF959E3D6197190DD5

'hal' was running AIX on a RS/6000. At least it was when I last used it 
sometime in 1992 or so. It was one of the gateways.

'spike', I'm pretty sure, was a Sony NEWS. It was also one of the 
gateways IIRC.

Those are the only two I can (kinda) remember.

Jim