9 Sep
2011
9 Sep
'11
3:22 p.m.
I was just trawling through some of my file archives and found my old
email address when at University:
mwickens at vax2.luton.ac.uk - from 1993 to 1996
At the time I wasn't really into VAXen, but subsequently have wondered
about the VAX that handled my emails during that time. In the last year
a new Alpha system came online, and new email accounts were set up on
that box.
Anyone had interested email addresses in the past, or an email address
which represented a nostalgic time in their life.
The fluidity of email addresses interests me academically and
professionally - I work on systems which traditionally have involved
postal communication, but are moving over to email based communication.
This represents a challenge due to the fluidity of email addresses over
the course of the years.
Regards, Mark.
9 Sep
9 Sep
3:40 p.m.
On Fri, 9 Sep 2011, Mark Wickens wrote:
Anyone had interested email addresses in the past, or
an email address which
represented a nostalgic time in their life.
Well, digging up an ancient copy of the "Linux BBS List" from '92, I see
that I had the following...
Internet -- healyzh at holonet.net
CompuServe -- 70332,14
Prodigy -- SCNN49A
Fido NetMail -- Zane Healy at 1:109/615
In just under 20 years my primary email address has changed 3 times
(holonet, netcom, and aracnet). For 2-3 years I had both holonet and
netcom. In each case, I've had the same username. It's not hard to track
me down. :-)
At the time I didn't realize the Compuserve account # was a PPN on a PDP-10.
As for Prodigy, I definitely look back at it with more than a littel
Nostalgia, as that was my first online experience.
Zane
4:34 p.m.
Well, digging up an ancient copy of the "Linux
BBS List" from '92, I see
that I had the following...
I had the sexy sounding 7FADDONZE at msoe.edu, but I do not think there
are any remains of that. It was circa 1990. After that I had
integrat at usr.com, an account I took over while making AOL modem racks.
My "real" usr.com account withered away, as I never used it. Every so
often I see remains of that on the net. Then there was my beloved
william at ans.net...
OK, I am crying now...
(not really)
--
Will
9 Sep
9 Sep
3:42 p.m.
1ajs at pangea.ca << aww i miss that email :(
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 5:22 PM, Mark Wickens <mark at wickensonline.co.uk>wrote:
I was just trawling through some of my file archives
and found my old email
address when at University:
mwickens at vax2.luton.ac.uk - from 1993 to 1996
At the time I wasn't really into VAXen, but subsequently have wondered
about the VAX that handled my emails during that time. In the last year a
new Alpha system came online, and new email accounts were set up on that
box.
Anyone had interested email addresses in the past, or an email address
which represented a nostalgic time in their life.
The fluidity of email addresses interests me academically and
professionally - I work on systems which traditionally have involved postal
communication, but are moving over to email based communication. This
represents a challenge due to the fluidity of email addresses over the
course of the years.
Regards, Mark.
5:10 p.m.
On 2011 Sep 9, at 3:22 PM, Mark Wickens wrote:
Anyone had interested email addresses in the past, or
an email address
which represented a nostalgic time in their life.
The fluidity of email addresses interests me academically and
professionally - I work on systems which traditionally have involved
postal communication, but are moving over to email based
communication. This represents a challenge due to the fluidity of
email addresses over the course of the years.
I was working-on/developing email systems in the early 80's, so had a
fairly early domain-style email address. I haven't 'intentionally'
changed my email address for nearly 30 years, but it has changed
underneath me due to network developments and bureaucratic changes:
~ 1983 - 1986 : hilpert at ean.ubc.cdn <machineName> . <institution> .
<country>
~ 1986 - 1991 : hilpert at ean.ubc.ca Canada top level domain changed
to "ca"
~ 1991 - present: hilpert at cs.ubc.ca machineNames amalgamated into
departmental domain
Our project initiated the top-level domain for Canada, but there were
two sets of international standards for country-codes/abbreviations
(ISO and some other body; these were codes for general use, such as by
postal services, telecoms, governments, licensing authorities, etc.)
This was before the INA or internet authorities-of-the-time had
specified rules about top-level domains, so we chose one of the
standards and hence the domain name "cdn". As the Internet grew
internationally the other standard was decided upon for country top
level domains (the 2-letter country codes), so we switched the Canada
top-level domain to "ca".
Had an earlier (< 1983) email address when the Verex project had an
early gateway connection to the ARPANET. (Verex was an intermediate
step between Thoth and the VKernel, for those into OS history).
5:12 p.m.
On Fri, 9 Sep 2011, Mark Wickens wrote:
I was just trawling through some of my file archives
and found my old email
address when at University:
mwickens at vax2.luton.ac.uk - from 1993 to 1996
At the time I wasn't really into VAXen, but subsequently have wondered about
the VAX that handled my emails during that time. In the last year a new Alpha
system came online, and new email accounts were set up on that box.
Speaking of VAXen and email, my collection includes the VAX 4000/300
purchased by Rowan University in NJ (then Glassboro State College) in
1991. It was online as saturn.rowan.edu until 2001, as one of the systems
which allowed student internet accounts. The guide to using the system is
still available:
ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/eff/Net_culture/Net_info/Guidebooks/VMS_net_guide/
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/
7:33 p.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-
bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Mike Loewen
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 5:12 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Interesting email addresses of old...
On Fri, 9 Sep 2011, Mark Wickens wrote:
Speaking of old VAXen and email and, well, the same story in a lot of respects: a
machine in my personal collection is a VAX 4000/300 (a great box) that had served as
nessie.wwu.edu (an OS was on the machine and I did a conversational boot into it just to
see what was what). I picked it up from a manufacturing company that had acquired it as
part of a larger lot and didn't know what to do with it.
Years later, when I started working at the Living Computer Museum, my manager mentioned
he'd been at Western Washington University, had learned assembly language programming
on a VAX, and he wondered what had ever happened to "nessie". We connected the
dots, and... imagine how jealous he is that I have that machine! I've had to replace
a power supply but other than that it's run great for me. -- Ian
I was just trawling through some of my file
archives and found my old
email
address when at University:
mwickens at vax2.luton.ac.uk - from 1993 to 1996
At the time I wasn't really into VAXen, but subsequently have wondered
about
the VAX that handled my emails during that time.
In the last year a new
Alpha
system came online, and new email accounts were
set up on that box.
Speaking of VAXen and email, my collection includes the VAX 4000/300
purchased by Rowan University in NJ (then Glassboro State College) in
1991. It was online as saturn.rowan.edu until 2001, as one of the systems
which allowed student internet accounts. The guide to using the system is
still available:
ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/eff/Net_culture/Net_info/Guidebooks/VMS_net_gu
ide/
8:07 p.m.
On Fri, 9 Sep 2011, Ian King wrote:
I've had to replace the power supply in both cabinets in mine. Similar
contact story from someone who found my VAX page:
"Saw your page - man that brings back memories. My dad had an Alumni
account at Rowan in the early 90s and that VAX is how I learned about the
Internet and IRC, via a dialup terminal. Glad to know its still kicking
somewhere!"
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://sturgeon.css.psu.edu/~mloewen/Oldtech/
On Fri, 9 Sep
2011, Mike Loewen wrote:
Speaking of VAXen and email, my collection includes the VAX 4000/300
purchased by Rowan University in NJ (then Glassboro State College) in
1991. It was online as saturn.rowan.edu until 2001, as one of the systems
which allowed student internet accounts. The guide to using the system is
still available:
Speaking of old VAXen and email and, well, the same story in a lot of
respects: a machine in my personal collection is a VAX 4000/300 (a great
box) that had served as nessie.wwu.edu (an OS was on the machine and I
did a conversational boot into it just to see what was what). I picked
it up from a manufacturing company that had acquired it as part of a
larger lot and didn't know what to do with it.
Years later, when I started working at the Living Computer Museum, my
manager mentioned he'd been at Western Washington University, had
learned assembly language programming on a VAX, and he wondered what had
ever happened to "nessie". We connected the dots, and... imagine how
jealous he is that I have that machine! I've had to replace a power
supply but other than that it's run great for me. -- Ian 
6:21 p.m.
jws at ni.net is about as short an address as I ever had. They were
gobbled up by a number of ISPs and lost the nifty 2 letter domain, or
abandoned it. No idea what a 2 letter one goes for now days, probably
as much asn an Apple Lisa.
Network Innovations was located in Irvine, Ca and offered dial-in PPP
service. Never had any of the other useless access methods, before that
was doing direct BBS accessing. I had net access other ways earlier,
and got a shell account (still have it) at world.std.com, the first
provider of open shell access with a system connected to the internet.
However it was way cheaper to connect via ni.net, and get into that system.
On 9/9/2011 3:22 PM, Mark Wickens wrote:
I was just trawling through some of my file archives
and found my old
email address when at University:
mwickens at vax2.luton.ac.uk - from 1993 to 1996
At the time I wasn't really into VAXen, but subsequently have wondered
about the VAX that handled my emails during that time. In the last
year a new Alpha system came online, and new email accounts were set
up on that box.
Anyone had interested email addresses in the past, or an email address
which represented a nostalgic time in their life.
The fluidity of email addresses interests me academically and
professionally - I work on systems which traditionally have involved
postal communication, but are moving over to email based
communication. This represents a challenge due to the fluidity of
email addresses over the course of the years.
Regards, Mark.
10 Sep
10 Sep
11:13 p.m.
In the early 1990's, I was working for a division of Schlumberger.
In 1994, I moved to San Jose, and set up shop in the Schlumberger ATE
division building. The sysadmin and I got along well, and he was
nice enough to give me the following e-mail addy:
banzai at San-Jose.ate.slb.com
A couple of years later, I received a stern e-mail from the person
in charge of corporate e-mail, admonishing me for having a "non-standard"
e-mail address. I was forced to change it to:
jlkaneko at San-Jose.ate.slb.com
This was the first time I ever got nit-picked by an IT person; and
it damn sure wasn't the last. I could go on about my opinions re:
corporate IT personnel, but that would be quite pointless.
Back then, Schlumberger had a globally linked network of Vaxen
for e-mail and stuff. Quite cool, actually.
Jeff
-----Original Message-----
From: mark at wickensonline.co.uk
Sent: Fri, 09 Sep 2011 23:22:32 +0100
To:
Subject: Interesting email addresses of old...
I was just trawling through some of my file archives and found my old
email address when at University:
mwickens at vax2.luton.ac.uk - from 1993 to 1996
At the time I wasn't really into VAXen, but subsequently have wondered
about the VAX that handled my emails during that time. In the last year
a new Alpha system came online, and new email accounts were set up on
that box.
Anyone had interested email addresses in the past, or an email address
which represented a nostalgic time in their life.
The fluidity of email addresses interests me academically and
professionally - I work on systems which traditionally have involved
postal communication, but are moving over to email based communication.
This represents a challenge due to the fluidity of email addresses over
the course of the years.
Regards, Mark.
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11 Sep
11 Sep
11:08 a.m.
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011, N0body H0me wrote:
banzai at San-Jose.ate.slb.com
A couple of years later, I received a stern e-mail from the person
in charge of corporate e-mail, admonishing me for having a "non-standard"
e-mail address. I was forced to change it to:
jlkaneko at San-Jose.ate.slb.com
Couldn't you have gotten away with changing it to bbanzai?
This was the first time I ever got nit-picked by an IT
person; and
it damn sure wasn't the last. I could go on about my opinions re:
corporate IT personnel, but that would be quite pointless.
College administrators make them look good.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com
13 Sep
13 Sep
1:44 p.m.
On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 11:22:32PM +0100, Mark Wickens wrote:
Anyone had interested email addresses in the past, or
an email
address which represented a nostalgic time in their life.
I can't remember any of my previous ISP based addresses. Many years
ago I registered a domain name for a personal web site. A nice side
effect is that I can change ISPs without my address changing.
When I first started in the shop I currently work in my work e-mail
address was:
DOKPM0 at CFLMVS.CentralFreight.com
I kinda miss that one. It was for TAO e-mail accessed via CICS on an
IBM mainframe. Even though the domain contains MVS we were actually
running OS/390 by the time I got the above address, and we're
currently running z/OS. The TAO e-mail system was retired a few years
ago.
--
Kevin
http://www.RawFedDogs.net
http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org
Bruceville, TX
What's the definition of a legacy system? One that works!
Errare humanum est, ignoscere caninum.
17 Sep
17 Sep
7:12 p.m.
On 09/13/2011 04:44 PM, Kevin Monceaux wrote:
When I first started in the shop I currently work in
my work e-mail
address was:
DOKPM0 at CFLMVS.CentralFreight.com
I kinda miss that one. It was for TAO e-mail accessed via CICS on an
IBM mainframe. Even though the domain contains MVS we were actually
running OS/390 by the time I got the above address, and we're
currently running z/OS.
...which of course are all basically different generations of MVS! ;)
(not referring to CICS, just MVS, OS/390, and z/OS)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
9:12 p.m.
From: Dave McGuire
Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2011 7:12 PM
On 09/13/2011 04:44 PM, Kevin Monceaux wrote:
> IBM mainframe. Even though the domain contains
MVS we were actually
> running OS/390 by the time I got the above address, and we're
> currently running z/OS.
...which of course are all basically different
generations of MVS! ;)
(not referring to CICS, just MVS, OS/390, and z/OS)
Sort of, if you discount the 24-bit vs. 31-bit addressing of the hardware,
or the 64-bit non-360 architecture of the hardware running z/OS...
Just feeling ornery this evening...
Rich Alderson
(no .sig, on vacation)
9:33 p.m.
On 09/18/2011 12:12 AM, Rich Alderson wrote:
There are many such variations in the OS world. For example, Solaris
is still Solaris whether it's running on a 32-bit SPARC or a 64-bit
SPARC. (or a 32- or 64-bit x86, for that matter)
And is it not the case that the 64-bit z/Series architecture is
basically an extension of the 31-bit (addressing) ESA/390 architecture?
> IBM
mainframe. Even though the domain contains MVS we were actually
> running OS/390 by the time I got the above address, and we're
> currently running z/OS.
...which of course are all basically
different generations of MVS! ;)
(not referring to CICS, just MVS, OS/390, and z/OS)
Sort of, if you discount the 24-bit vs. 31-bit addressing of the hardware,
or the 64-bit non-360 architecture of the hardware running z/OS... Just feeling ornery this evening...
Apparently! ;)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
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