On 2/24/21 3:27 PM, Paul Koning wrote: > > >> On Feb 24, 2021, at 9:08 AM, Antonio Carlini via cctalk >> <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: >> >> On 24/02/2021 03:26, Eric Smith via cctalk wrote: >>> Does anyone have contact information for the proprietor of this site: >>> http://www.activityclub.org/decnotes/ >>> The site has an index of messages archived from DEC's internal "Notes" >>> (kind of their equivalent of UseNet). >>> >>> It appears from the "Download this site" page that at one time it was >>> possible to download an archive of the actual content, but the hosting used >>> for that only provides one week of free hosting, which has expired. >>> >>> I don't need the entire archive (though I'd like to get it), but I'd >>> especially like to get messages from milkwy::23class_semiconductor and >>> ricks::decschips. >> >> Well if they ever show up, I'd be interested :-). >> >> >> That archive was largely incomplete: it had the message titles but very few >> of the actual messages. There were some rather harsh negative comments on an >> FB group when someone pointed to it. Obviously some people thought that when >> they were writing their original comments that they would be kept private to >> the 100,000+ Digital employees :-) > > The more significant issue may be that DEC, and its successor companies, > might have objections to the public posting of company confidential material. > > Too bad only a few things were archived. I looked for myself and found > exactly one notesfile ("fddi") with saved content, which made for some fun > reading. But other notesfiles that would actually be more interesting at > this stage, like ones about RSTS, aren't archived. > > I wonder if anyone has the full archive dump. If so I'd love to have that. > > paul > >
I found a few of my postings in there from AlphaServer and Digital UNIX days. It is fun being reminded of some of the folks I worked with all those years ago. My other reaction was "I'm sure glad nobody is asking me to remember some of that trivia now". Gary