[geeks] Apple software: the stuff you "gotta have"

[John Francini]

My first "real" E-mail was when I started at Digital in 1983. We had  
corporate-wide DECnet-based E-mail, and my address was TWINKY::FRANCINI.

Yes, the computer was named TWINKY.

Why?  Good question.

Because, on DECsystem-10s and 20s, and (maybe still) on VMS, the SET  
HOST command (DECnet equivalent to Telnet) also took the female form,  
of SET HOSTESS.

So.....


there had to be a Hostess Twinky (singular), so that you could SET  
HOSTESS TWINKY.


Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week.

j



On 11 Oct 2007, at 9:59, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 09:34:10AM -0400, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>
>> I think I still remember my bang-path.
>
> The last one was uunet!gsm001!gsm. Then I got mendelson.com (Jan 1991)
> and stopped using bang paths (though I still used UUCP). At various
> times I fed other sites, but I think they were handled by aliases.
>
> That's when I moved from UNIX "mail" to ELM, I needed a mailer
> that understood domain name format email addresses.
>
> What I can't remember is the BITNET email address I had while working
> for a client (for almost a year). It was "madgsm", the "mad" was the
> department code, not a comment on my sanity, but I can't remember
> the rest of it.
>
> Now it is really easy, I remember sending email (circa 1969) by  
> inserting
> messages in a shared file, or since I was a sysadmin, the  
> equivalent of
> "/etc/login". This was back in the days when HP made "real" computers.
>
> Geoff.
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