Re: Did we miss the 20th anniversary of classiccmp?

[Andrew K. Bressen via cctalk]

Telecom digest has been running since 1981. 

I don't know if any of the Amateur Press Associations (APAs)
made the leap to digital, but an APA is fundamentally a digest 
email list done with a copier/mimeograph/hectograph and the postal
service as the transport layer, and there's at least one active 
one that's 80 years old. 

Paul Koning via cctalk  writes:
>> On Apr 21, 2017, at 1:26 AM, Pontus Pihlgren via cctalk 
>>  wrote:
>> 
>> Congratulations to us all, even if a little late.
>> 
>> It makes me wonder, what is the oldest still running mailinglist?
>
> Don't know about *the* oldest, but one that's quite old and still very active 
> is the TZ mailing list (about timezone rules and their ongoing changes).  
> This is the list that collects and distributes the data that keeps clocks 
> worldwide showing the correct local time, at least when politicians give more 
> than a few days' notice of a change.
>
> The first message on that list is from Arthur Olson, Mon, 24 Nov 86 19:58:12 
> EST.  Though retired now he still occasionally contributes.
>
>   paul

Re: RIP: Daniel Bobrow

[Andrew K. Bressen via cctalk]

If anyone else has any Daniel Bobrow stories, please send them
to me to pass along to his family; his daughter is collecting
them. 

Stan Sieler via cctalk  writes:
> Re:
>
>
>> From: Tony Aiuto 
>> Subject: RIP: Daniel Bobrow
>>
>> http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/nytimes/obituary.
>> aspx?n=daniel-bobrow=184794881
>
>
> I worked with Danny for about a year, around 1974, sometime after UCSD put
> its B6700 onto the ARPAnet (we were something like the 35th computer).
>
> The AI community needed a BBNLISP with more addressing space than a DEC-10
> could provide, so they came to the king of virtual addressing: the
> Burroughs.
> We got the contract to implement BBNLISP, and Danny came to oversee.
>
> I remember him typing on a terminal, linking UCSD to about 10 other
> computers
> on the ARPANET, finally linked back to us ... sending a message to himself.
> He was demonstrating the lag time each computer added :)
>
> IIRC, sometime during the project, BBNLISP was renamed INTERLISP.  I still
> have the wonderful manual, with the great artwork on the cover.  Warren
> Teitelman (the author) doesn't have his name on the cover.  But, the bottom
> portion has a guy is operating a meat grinder, with the input being the
> letters of "reference manual" in random order, and the output being
> "reference manual".  Danny explained that Warren Teitelman hadn't gotten
> the joke :)
>
> Danny was funny, quick witted, friendly ... RIP.
>
> Oh, UCSD LISP?  About a week before we released it, DEC (or BBN?) had a
> breakthrough and increased the addressability of their virtual memory,
> obviating the need for our version :(
>
> Stan Sieler
>
>>
>>

Re: Ann Arbor Ambassador XL / Re: pile of gear for sale (DEC, Sun, PC, ephemera, v.35 cables, etc etc)

[Andrew K. Bressen via cctalk]

> On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 02:22:34PM -0700, Brent Hilpert via cctalk wrote:
>>(Not sure what the XL designates, I knew them as just Ann Arbor Ambassador).
>

John Wilson via cctalk  writes:
> It's a newer version.  I think maybe 60 lines vs. 48 for the classic AAA?
> Could be wrong.
>
> John Wilson
> D Bit

Yeah, it has a pretty tall aspect ratio, 60 lines seems very believable.

pile of gear for sale (DEC, Sun, PC, ephemera, v.35 cables, etc etc)

[Andrew K. Bressen via cctalk]

I have about four or five hundred things I'm ready to stop owning.
I'm in Boston. If anyone wants a number of objects, I could deliver
to VCF East this weekend. 

Inventory list at: 
http://threefingered.com/2017_inventory_3.html

I have someone interested in getting all of the TK-50s, OSF/1 and
Digital Unix CDs, and some of the VME boards, so those things might 
not be available.

Contact me at decruft @ mirror.to please. 

Items I'd especially like to find good homes for are the DECNIS
cables and the Adak ISDN box, anyone interested in those items 
is welcome to them for cost of postage and a good story about why
you want it.