20 Mar
2017
20 Mar
'17
5:33 p.m.
Hi all, as part of the upcoming 50th anniversary of Unix in mid-2019,
a bunch of people are working to rebuild the mid-1980s uucp/Usenet
network using (real/simulated) period-accurate systems. To make things
easier, we are simulating the dialup lines too.
Details of the (nearly) turnkey software to do this is at:
https://github.com/DoctorWkt/4bsd-uucp
A map of what nodes we have so far is at:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DoctorWkt/4bsd-uucp/4.3BSD/uucp.png
If you are interested in participating, email me back.
Cheers, Warren
21 Mar
21 Mar
1:51 a.m.
Hi Warren,
What would the requirements for the system be? How often would it need to
be online? I?m working on getting an OS for it, but if I succeed I might
be able to get my Convex C1 up and running in a few weeks, and wouldn?t it
be nice to have that participate?
Camiel
On 3/21/17, 1:33 AM, "cctalk on behalf of Warren Toomey via cctalk"
<cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org on behalf of cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Hi all, as part of the upcoming 50th anniversary of
Unix in mid-2019,
a bunch of people are working to rebuild the mid-1980s uucp/Usenet
network using (real/simulated) period-accurate systems. To make things
easier, we are simulating the dialup lines too.
Details of the (nearly) turnkey software to do this is at:
https://github.com/DoctorWkt/4bsd-uucp
A map of what nodes we have so far is at:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DoctorWkt/4bsd-uucp/4.3BSD/uucp.png
If you are interested in participating, email me back.
Cheers, Warren
9:20 a.m.
On 03/20/2017 08:33 PM, Warren Toomey via cctalk wrote:
Hi all, as part of the upcoming 50th anniversary of
Unix in mid-2019,
a bunch of people are working to rebuild the mid-1980s uucp/Usenet
network using (real/simulated) period-accurate systems. To make things
easier, we are simulating the dialup lines too.
Details of the (nearly) turnkey software to do this is at:
https://github.com/DoctorWkt/4bsd-uucp
A map of what nodes we have so far is at:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DoctorWkt/4bsd-uucp/4.3BSD/uucp.png
If you are interested in participating, email me back.
Cheers, Warren
That's awesome! Thank you for doing this!
Please consider adding an encryption layer to tcpdial via
openssl/libressl, even if it's done outside of the netbsd vm/physical
machine, and even if it's done with self-signed certs or even tunneled
over ssh.
2:44 p.m.
* On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 10:33:36AM +1000, Warren Toomey via cctalk <cctalk at
classiccmp.org> wrote:
Hi all, as part of the upcoming 50th anniversary of
Unix in mid-2019,
a bunch of people are working to rebuild the mid-1980s uucp/Usenet
network using (real/simulated) period-accurate systems. To make things
easier, we are simulating the dialup lines too.
This is an absolutely wonderful idea.
I would very much like to get one of my 3B2s up and running on this new
UUCP network. I still have a mostly fallow land line that I can use.
When I have some time in the next week or two, I'll try to get things
ready under SVR3 UNIX.
-Seth
--
Seth Morabito
web at loomcom.com
3:19 p.m.
On 03/21/2017 02:44 PM, Seth Morabito via cctalk wrote:
I would very much like to get one of my 3B2s up and
running on this
new UUCP network. I still have a mostly fallow land line that I can
use. When I have some time in the next week or two, I'll try to get
things ready under SVR3 UNIX.
For those without *nix boxes, there is a DOS/OS2 version called UUPC:
https://github.com/swhobbit/UUPC
I used this back in the pre-web days and it worked fine.
--Chuck
3:22 p.m.
On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 3:19 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 03/21/2017 02:44 PM, Seth Morabito via cctalk
wrote:
There's a VMS version, too. So many choices....
--
Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate
The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu>
Dissertation: "Why the Conversation Mattered: Constructing a Sociotechnical
Narrative Through a Design Lens
Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org>
Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org>
University of Washington
There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."
I would very much like to get one of my 3B2s up
and running on this
new UUCP network. I still have a mostly fallow land line that I can
use. When I have some time in the next week or two, I'll try to get
things ready under SVR3 UNIX.
For those without *nix boxes, there is a DOS/OS2 version called UUPC:
https://github.com/swhobbit/UUPC
I used this back in the pre-web days and it worked fine.
--Chuck
3:47 p.m.
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From: cctalk [cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] on behalf of Seth Morabito via cctalk
[cctalk at classiccmp.org]
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 5:44 PM
To: Warren Toomey via cctalk
Subject: Re: Introducing the UUCP/Usenet Project
* On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 10:33:36AM +1000, Warren Toomey via cctalk <cctalk at
classiccmp.org> wrote:
Hi all, as part of the upcoming 50th anniversary of
Unix in mid-2019,
a bunch of people are working to rebuild the mid-1980s uucp/Usenet
network using (real/simulated) period-accurate systems. To make things
easier, we are simulating the dialup lines too.
This is an absolutely wonderful idea.
I would very much like to get one of my 3B2s up and running on this new
UUCP network. I still have a mostly fallow land line that I can use.
When I have some time in the next week or two, I'll try to get things
ready under SVR3 UNIX.
-Seth
--
Seth Morabito
web at loomcom.com
________________________________________________
My introduction to UUCPNet, emai and USENET News was on a couple of 3B2's.
Great machines. I used to have two of them at home but they died over a decade ago.
Somewhere arounf here I still have my xerox of the WE3200 architecture manual. I
loved that CPU.
bill
4:29 p.m.
Am 21.03.2017 um 01:33 schrieb Warren Toomey via cctech <cctech at classiccmp.org>:
A map of what nodes we have so far is at:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DoctorWkt/4bsd-uucp/4.3BSD/uucp.png
Please add (rough) locations, where the boxes are, and what OS/stack these are using, if
anyhow possible! Would love to see that.
Regards
G?tz
25 Mar
25 Mar
10:10 p.m.
For a year or two in college, I was running UUCP on my Amiga 1000. I had it dialing into
the SPARCstation IPC on the computer support desk at UCI. Gack, I still remember the pain
of hacking the sendmail.cf without the benefit of the later m4 macros, in order to get the
mail forwarding working.
--
Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/
26 Mar
26 Mar
1:01 p.m.
New subject: DEC VT520 in San Jose
Saw this on Craigslist so if anyone needs one it's reasonable at $35
working.
https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/sys/6060214206.html
Bob
--
Vintage computers and electronics
www.dvq.com
www.tekmuseum.com
www.decmuseum.org
28 Mar
28 Mar
1:16 p.m.
New subject: DEC VT520 in San Jose
I?d already arranged to pick it up by the time you posted this. ;)
It works great! The seller only had an HP keyboard for it though (as shown), not an LK411,
and those are terribly expensive right now on eBay. Still, it works just fine, and is nice
and crisp amber on black even at 132?50.
-- Chris
On Mar 26, 2017, at 1:01 PM, Bob Rosenbloom via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Saw this on Craigslist so if anyone needs one it's reasonable at $35 working.
https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/sys/6060214206.html
Bob
--
Vintage computers and electronics
www.dvq.com
www.tekmuseum.com
www.decmuseum.org
2:16 p.m.
New subject: DEC VT520 in San Jose
The VT520 is one of my favorite modern DEC terminals. Small and doesn't
take up a lot of room but still perfectly readable in 50 line mode if the
CRT isn't too old and tired. It also supports dual simultaneous sessions as
well, doesn't it?
You get color with the VT525, but then you need to hook it up to a suitable
display. Many of the LCD displays I have tried with a VT525 are not happy
with the display modes it uses and can result in less readable displays
compared to the VT520.
Fortunately I have been able to acquire 4 or 5 LK411 keyboards at
reasonable prices over the years. A couple were around $5 each at RE-PC in
Seattle a year or two ago.
-Glen
On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 1:16 PM, Chris Hanson via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
I?d already arranged to pick it up by the time you
posted this. ;)
It works great! The seller only had an HP keyboard for it though (as
shown), not an LK411, and those are terribly expensive right now on eBay.
Still, it works just fine, and is nice and crisp amber on black even at
132?50.
-- Chris
On Mar 26, 2017, at 1:01 PM, Bob Rosenbloom via
cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Saw this on Craigslist so if anyone needs one it's reasonable at $35
working.
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