5 Jan
2002
5 Jan
'02
12:54 p.m.
I loved alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt... only lurked there, but it was
sweet... are there any newer alternatives out there these days?
----- Original Message -----
From: Pete Turnbull <pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 10:45 PM
Subject: Re: 7/01/97 ClassicCmp FAQ - Part 1
sometime
now-dead
On Jan 5, 15:23, Marvin Johnston wrote:
reading
Tony Duell wrote:
> > > With so much OT stuff going on, this FAQ might be interesting
> > for
some of the newer members of this listserver. And just for the
sake
> > > of curiosity, who has been on the list the longest? I joined
> >
around June 5, 1997.
Beats me by over half a year. According to my old mail archives, I
subscribed thus:
From pete Thu Feb 26 01:01:17 1998
To: listproc(a)u.washington.edu
Reply-To: pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com
Status: OR
subscribe CLASSICCMP pete(a)dunnington.u-net.com
And two days later, in a private email to someone else, I concluded:
(signed by Pete, still watching 60+ messages coming off his POP mbox :-( )
It was a fairly busy list even then.
Just out of curiosity, how did you hear about the
listserver? I found
out about it when Bill posted something to alt.computers.cpm (or
something like that.) It seems like quite a few people on this list were
also active on that newsgroup at that time.
I subscribed after seeing something on a newsgroup, and it was very likely
either comp.os.cpm or alt.folklore.computers. Other groups I read then
were mostly vmsnet.*, alt.sys.pdp*, alt.sys.perq, comp.sys.acorn.*,
uk.telecom, rec.pyrotechnics, a few other comp.sys groups, and the alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt.
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Network Manager
University of York