Margaret Hamilton Guardian interview.

Another of the un-acknowledged people in the upcoming July 29 'celebrations'. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jul/13/margaret-hamilton-computer-scientist-interview-software-apollo-missions-1969-moon-landing-nasa-women --lyndon

Re: Email delivery protocols / methods.

> MMDF MMDF was[*] an MTA, not a protocol. (See also PMDF.) --lyndon * Is anyone still running MMDF? The last production shops I had my fingers in that ran it was circa 1996. That was when SCO was still a thing, and MMDF was its MTA of choice.

Re: Kids these days...

William Donzelli via cctalk writes: > It is a real company, but if you look into the SEC papers, there is a > LOT of shady stuff there. Its sole job may be to move money in and out > of the Ukraine. I was going to shy away from those thoughts, but ... * a "new" startup, since 2009? * actual

Re: 1983 UBC PDP-11 Unix tools distribution

Al Kossow via cctalk writes: > On 3/6/19 10:14 AM, Lyndon Nerenberg via cctalk wrote: > sigh.. before this goes farther into the weeds, the tape > came from the University of British Columbia's Biosciences Data Center > > there is a short bio of Bill Webb at > http://archive

Re: 1983 UBC PDP-11 Unix tools distribution

Brent Hilpert writes: > On 2019-Mar-05, at 10:07 PM, Richard Loken wrote: >> TRIUMF was using /11s for cyclotron control I believe, that's not >> where you anticipate UNIX showing up. >> But was it Unix or something else like RT-11? Or was it a VAX? > Well, I don't know for certain, I was just

Re: Cybernex APL-100 terminal

On Mon, 23 Apr 2018, Norman Jaffe via cctech wrote: Does anyone in the group have access to documentation for the Cybernex APL-100 video terminal? All that I've been able to locate is a 4 page brochure for it; they were originally made in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Any help would be greatly

Re: Multics Lives

> On Apr 20, 2018, at 8:45 AM, Tomasz Rola via cctalk > wrote: > > It seems to go unmentioned here, so here you are. One guy have set up > a public Multics site. More than one ;-) $ ssh mult...@orthanc.ca HSLA Port

RE: Non-Yahoo MTS Mailing Lists

Ok well I have checked and it looks like Lyndon is on the yahoo MTS list, but his mail supplier may be filing as spam. Umm ... his email supplier is him. I've been running my own mail servers since the early 1980s. If anything is getting bounced, it's because my email servers brand the

RE: Non-Yahoo MTS Mailing Lists

Lyndon, Seeing as the folks who set up the original distribution are on the Yahoo list it's the best place to ask questions. I assume you don't want to set up a Yahoo account? Facebook perhaps? I did fight my way thought the Yahoo interface to get onto at least one of the MTS groups via the

Restoring MTS *FS distribution tapes onto a UNIX system

The answer to my previous question lives in the source code. The D6.0A MTS distribution doesn't have the source on disk, so the files need to be extracted from the *FS tapes. On an MTS system, that's a pain in the ass. Given the DRIVER file from the distribution, has anyone tried extracting

Non-Yahoo MTS Mailing Lists

Are any of you aware of an MTS mailing list that lives outside of the execrable Yahoo groups environment? And if not, is there any interest in starting one? Meanwhile, if there are any MTS hacks on the list, I have a question: When running *SAV or *SVW, what are the labels the system is

Re: OT: the death of shortwave / Re: Hallicrafters S-85

> On Oct 19, 2017, at 8:39 PM, Marc Howard wrote: > > That said, it is much easier to do coast to coast now with WebSDR. Go to > websdr.org and choose a receiving site. They have way better antennas than > you or I and you can (cheat) pick one near the person your

Re: OT: the death of shortwave / Re: Hallicrafters S-85

> On Oct 19, 2017, at 7:15 PM, Ed Thierbach via cctalk > wrote: > > I'd be interested in a classic computing net as well. I have 40 - 10 > meters available on HF. Our area is lagging in digital repeater coverage, > so no Fusion or DMR or D*Star for me just yet. This

Re: What's the matter with kids today (Was: The origin of the phrases

> On Oct 6, 2017, at 12:08 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk > wrote: > > I have long held that while initial creation of software can benefit from > providing the programmers with the absolutel latest hardware, that at least > one significant stage of debugging and

Re: Subject: Re: RIP Jerry Pournelle, the first author to write a novel on a microcomputer

> On Sep 11, 2017, at 7:38 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk > wrote: > >> Was Jerry Pournelle the FIRST to write a PUBLISHED NOVEL on a >> MICROCOMPUTER? Yikes! Talk about SHOUTING. > > It is EMPHASIS of individual words and phrases. > THIS IS SHOUTING! FIGURE OUT THE

Re: Solaris on PPC?

> On Aug 30, 2017, at 7:30 PM, jim stephens via cctalk > wrote: > > IIRC Jobs killed the effort. Been a long time ago to recall. I don't think > it died before he was involved. > > We had the x86 Solaris, and the office was there at least thru Solaris 2.7 > days. I

Re: Why women were the first computer programmers

> On Aug 23, 2017, at 9:27 PM, Josh Dersch via cctalk > wrote: > > Well, this is the stupidest thing I've read today. "Do Not Feed The Troll" should go without saying. Really.

Re: xv and VMS

> The motion carries. > > Retirement as an attempt to gain more free time just doesn't work. You people obviously don't know Richard. He will hrumph and blunderbuss his way through local space-time until reality bends to his requirements. Also, the word "free" is never a descriptor of "time"