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, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 909 invoked from network); 15 Sep 2022 17:10:07 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 15 Sep 2022 17:10:07 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEF3E417A1; Fri, 16 Sep 2022 03:09:58 +1000 (AEST) Received: from orthanc.ca (orthanc.ca [208.79.93.154]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5FBB64178B for ; Fri, 16 Sep 2022 03:09:53 +1000 (AEST) Received: from orthanc.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orthanc.ca (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 5c38f477; Thu, 15 Sep 2022 10:09:52 -0700 (PDT) From: "Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)" To: arnold@skeeve.com In-reply-to: <202209150423.28F4NBSg015512@freefriends.org> References: <202209150423.28F4NBSg015512@freefriends.org> Comments: In-reply-to arnold@skeeve.com message dated "Wed, 14 Sep 2022 22:23:11 -0600." MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <62920.1663261792.1@orthanc.ca> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2022 10:09:52 -0700 Message-ID: Message-ID-Hash: ER773XXXOKKGD6NKELXWKUUCWKVS5NGB X-Message-ID-Hash: ER773XXXOKKGD6NKELXWKUUCWKVS5NGB X-MailFrom: lyndon@orthanc.ca 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: The USL Toolchest from the 80s and 90s List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: arnold@skeeve.com writes: > "new" awk was available there, as was Chris Ramming's awkcc, and ksh88. There were all sorts of goodies. Honey Dan-Ber UUCP, and (I think) Device Independent Troff were there. But I cannot for the life of me remember what the non-rogue software was that we bought. HDB is a likely suspect, as we ran a pretty busy UUCP/Usenet relay at the time. > The awk book from 1987 has instructions and the phone number for logging > into the toolchest. IIRC you set up a UUCP account in order to get > the software transferred. I forget the exact registration steps, now. But for delivery you set up a UUCP login for the toolchest site on your host, then they would call you and transfer the files over. And bill you some outrageous amount of money for the "long distance" charges they incurred. It was quite the scam. If we had polled them instead the LD costs would have been about 30% less. --lyndon