On 08/10/2011 07:29 PM, Michael Torrie wrote:
> While we're in nostalgia mood
"Did you forget to press the pound key?"
I liked the way he pronounced "social" in "social security number"
(which they used back then as your student ID):
"so sea uhl"
Good times.
--Dave
BYU U
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 5:13 PM, Jan Peterson
wrote:
> On 08/10/2011 04:56 PM, Jason wrote:
>>> BTW, is this an authentic "vintage" email, or did you write it today?
>>
>> Written today from a very foggy memory.
>
> Okay, you got me. I admit to thinking that the last time I had logged
> in to the
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Jason wrote:
>
>> BTW, is this an authentic "vintage" email, or did you write it today?
>
> Written today from a very foggy memory. Bryan got the year right on
I knew it as soon as you mentioned ROLM phones and CougarNet, but the
talk of vaxen and VMS almost had
On 8/10/11 7:29 PM, Michael Torrie wrote:
> I was just telling my one of my younger friends about how I used to
> register for classes over the phone and what a great leap forward the
> phone system was, especially for freshmen coming from all over the
> world. She was kind of incredulous. I reme
On Wed, 2011-08-10 at 22:56 +, Jason wrote:
> There was an online system for registering for classes that used the IBM 3290
> terminal type. I'm not sure if it ran on the vaxen or on an IBM mainframe.
> It'd get /really/ laggy when registration opened up, although most students
> used phone
On 08/10/2011 03:37 PM, Jason wrote:
> Now that I'm no longer in deseret towers connecting to the internet via the
> ROLM phones, I've been dialing in through CougarNet. But I find that due to
> network issues, I sometimes can't reach alma.cs.byu.edu even though I can
> still reach YVAX1.BYU.ED
On 08/10/2011 04:56 PM, Jason wrote:
>> BTW, is this an authentic "vintage" email, or did you write it today?
>
> Written today from a very foggy memory.
Okay, you got me. I admit to thinking that the last time I had logged
in to the yvax was about sixteen years ago, but I've seen stranger
thing
> BTW, is this an authentic "vintage" email, or did you write it today?
Written today from a very foggy memory. Bryan got the year right on -- I
think they shut down the yvaxen shortly thereafter. I only used them
occasionally; VMS seemed so foreign and EVERYTHING WAS IN CAPS, although it
ha
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 09:37:37PM +, Jason wrote:
> Now that I'm no longer in deseret towers connecting to the internet via the
> ROLM phones, I've been dialing in through CougarNet. But I find that due to
> network issues, I sometimes can't reach alma.cs.byu.edu even though I can
> still
On 08/10/2011 03:37 PM, Jason wrote:
> but how do I handle text file format conversion? Do vaxen use EBCDIC?
Vaxen use ASCII, but they do use CR/LF for line terminations instead of
just LF (as on Unix). If you are using ftp to move the files, transfer
them in text mode and you will not have a pr
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Jason wrote:
> Now that I'm no longer in deseret towers connecting to the internet via the
> ROLM phones, I've been dialing in through CougarNet. But I find that due to
> network issues, I sometimes can't reach alma.cs.byu.edu even though I can
> still reach YVAX1
Now that I'm no longer in deseret towers connecting to the internet via the
ROLM phones, I've been dialing in through CougarNet. But I find that due to
network issues, I sometimes can't reach alma.cs.byu.edu even though I can
still reach YVAX1.BYU.EDU. Would switching to sisna help?
Meanwhile
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