12 Dec
2001
12 Dec
'01
3:15 a.m.
Google claims to have recovered the USENET archives from 1981 to
present.
Makes for some really fun reading. Birth of the web, linux, all the old
machines we love.
Jim Davis.
12 Dec
12 Dec
4:04 p.m.
--- Jim Davis <jpdavis(a)gorge.net> wrote:
Google claims to have recovered the USENET archives
from 1981 to
present.
Makes for some really fun reading. Birth of the web, linux, all the old
machines we love.
Jim Davis.
I've been perusing it... I can't find any of my own posting prior to
the Great Renaming (net.micro.amiga, etc.) In fact, I can see in
one of the traffic groups my upstream feed telling the other UUCP
admins that we were off the air (and I was out of a job ;-) but I that's
one of the oldest messages with my name in it. None of my _actual_
posts appears until late 1987.
Guess even with 7+E08 messages, there's still gaps.
-ethan
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4:37 p.m.
I've been perusing it... I can't find any of
my own posting prior to
the Great Renaming (net.micro.amiga, etc.) In fact, I can see in
one of the traffic groups my upstream feed telling the other UUCP
admins that we were off the air (and I was out of a job ;-) but I that's
one of the oldest messages with my name in it. None of my _actual_
posts appears until late 1987.
The earliest post of mine in there is from late 1994. To be fair, I wasn't
around much earlier than that, but there are still gaps even after the
Renaming.
Guess even with 7+E08 messages, there's still
gaps.
I'm not surprised, either, since there were few people really archiving
this stuff back then. I'm glad to at least have some of it, anyway.
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5:04 p.m.
I'm not surprised, either, since there were few
people really archiving
this stuff back then. I'm glad to at least have some of it, anyway.
Well it certainly could be worse....it's got to be quite a
task to have an archive like that, especially one that grows so much
each day. My earliest post is showing from 1995, about the time I
really started gathering these machines. I did find a post that I
had lost my copy of some time back, that provided some info I needed
on a set of pinouts though! BTW, here's a rather optimistic post,
cut and pasted direct from Google:
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
From: blk(a)syteka.UUCP (Brian L. Kahn)
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: amiga-commodore merge
Message-ID: <475(a)syteka.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-Aug-84 20:45:25 EDT
Article-I.D.: syteka.475
Posted: Thu Aug 16 20:45:25 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 19-Aug-84 02:54:56 EDT
References: charm.434
Lines: 11
:
Commodore is reportedly buying out amiga! Hoorah!
Amiga is an amazing machine. 68K, 128K of RAM, video chips that make
the c64 look like a VIC, sound chips, yow!
Rumor puts the price at $1000. This for a machine with the power
of a Macintosh with super graphics. I can't wait!
B<
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5:37 p.m.
I found a post of mine from 1984, asking for leads on a
UUCP package to run under VMS. We found a couple, and ran
UUCP for several years until we were hooked up to BITNET
and ARPANET.
Dave
Ethan Dicks wrote:
--- Jim Davis <jpdavis(a)gorge.net> wrote:
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Google claims to have recovered the USENET
archives from 1981 to
present.
Makes for some really fun reading. Birth of the web, linux, all the old
machines we love.
Jim Davis.
I've been perusing it... I can't find any of my own posting prior to
the Great Renaming (net.micro.amiga, etc.) In fact, I can see in
one of the traffic groups my upstream feed telling the other UUCP
admins that we were off the air (and I was out of a job ;-) but I that's
one of the oldest messages with my name in it. None of my _actual_
posts appears until late 1987.
Guess even with 7+E08 messages, there's still gaps.
-ethan
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