The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well.
"John Crane" <john_crane...@yahoo.com> writes: > Someone actually keeps their email from 1978? > > You should write a book on leading an organized life! some bits & pieces from some archive http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html problem is that the archive prior to 77 was lost when the almaden datacenter had operational problem with their tape library and random tapes were being mounted for scratch. only a trivial few things prior to 77 survived for random reasons ... a couple http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006v.html#email731212 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430 for other topic drift ... I remember being in Paris in early 70s doing a HONE clone install as part of EMEA hdqtrs move from the states to Paris ... and having a really difficult time getting electronic/network connection back to the states to read email. I had gotten blamed for computer conferencing on the internal network in the late 70s and early 80s. internal network was larger than arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until possibly sometime late 85 or early 86 ... some past posts http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet Part of that computer conferencing activity came to be called "tandem memos". The company then had a "task force" to investigate the phenomena ... including bringing in outside "experts". I remember two of the outside experts brought in to participate were the authors of "The Network Nation" ... reference here: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=8903 Somewhat as result there was also a researcher paid to sit in the back of my office for 9months taking notes on how I communicated, they also went with me to meetings. They got copies of all my incoming and outgoing email as well as logs of all instant messages. The result was a research report ... also a Stanford PHD thesis and the material for a number of papers and books. somewhat related posts on computer mediated communication http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#cmc One of the books http://www.powells.com/biblio?PID=24750&cgi=product&isbn=0582071313 some past posts referring to the troubles in the almaden datacenter http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001h.html#57 Whom Do Programmers Admire Now??? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003e.html#66 History of project maintenance tools -- what and when? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003i.html#13 A Dark Day http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003j.html#45 Hand cranking telephones http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2003m.html#12 Seven of Nine http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004b.html#59 A POX on you, Dennis Ritchie!!! http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005i.html#30 Status of Software Reuse? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006b.html#7 Mount a tape http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#42 vmshare http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007l.html#51 Scholars needed to build a computer history bibliography http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#29 Folklore references to CP67 at Lincoln Labs http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#8 Is SUN going to become x86'ed ?? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009.html#13 Is SUN going to become x86'ed ?? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009d.html#4 Why do IBMers think disks are 'Direct Access'? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009n.html#66 Evolution of Floating Point http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009s.html#17 old email http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#51 Source code for s/360 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#96 "The Naked Mainframe" (Forbes Security Article) -- 42yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
