From: Steve Mynott <steve.mynott@gmail.com>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 19:59:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANuZA8Q-ek==C8sUzvZeb4q-D+BiE2-w4zguRq1NYG-+V-B+Yg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANuZA8STu8kX1=-WeJatqN2UhZ7n-49Sn=2sXZq9Fei1SH5hBQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 25 Aug 2018 at 19:45, Steve Mynott <steve.mynott@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> But I can't remember what sort of system (hardware or OS) it was now
> however and wondered if anyone else did?
>
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.
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Steve Mynott <steve.mynott@gmail.com>
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2018-08-25 18:45 Steve Mynott
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2018-08-26 0:28 ` Jim Carpenter
2018-08-31 3:30 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
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