stars...@mindspring.com (Lizette Koehler) writes: > For those of you going to share in Orlando, I would like to let you know > that at Share Tom Conley will be giving a share presentation on Thursday > 3:15p called > > Effective Use of the Internet for Mainframe Problem Solving > > This session will show better ways of posting and getting responses from > various Lists. As well as providing a list of Mainframe specific Lists.
a co-worker at the ibm cambridge science center was responsible for the technology for the internal network (larger than the arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until sometime late 85 or early 86) and later bitnet (corporation sponsored univ. network) starting in the early 80s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edson_Hendricks I was blamed for online computer conferencing on the internal network in the late 70s & early 80s. folklore is that when the executive was told about online computer conferencing (and the internal network) 5of6 wanted to fire me. this is email from person in paris given job of doing EARN (bitnet equivalent in europe) looking for online applications http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001h.html#email840320 this is history of listserv creation in paris in 1986 ... somewhat similar to the earlier internal online VMTOOL computer conferencing tool (developed in the wake of my activities) ... although VMTOOL had both usenet-like mode in addition to mailing list like mode. http://www.lsoft.com/corporate/history-listserv.asp http://www.lsoft.com/products/listserv-history.asp wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LISTSERV In the late 80s, the communication group was spreading misinformation as part of convincing corporate to ocnvert the internal network to SNA/VTAM ... when it would have been much more efficient to have converted to TCP/IP (like BITNET did). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BITNET more mailing lists http://www.lsoft.com/lists/list_q.html some of the mailing lists gateway to usenet ... some bidirectional, others only distribution (but not posting). usenet is also gatewayed (usually bi-directional) to google groups note that TYMSHARE had developed CMS-based online computer conferencing system and made it avaialble to IBM SHARE organization starting in Aug1976 ... archive: http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare ... for mainframe specific try search engine for "ibm mainframe discussion group mailing list" -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
