*** Quoting Maurice Kinal from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***


MK> That sounds right.

 CS> Acoustic modem for dayly feedback logs to the company.

MK> I never saw any modems until I bought my first PC.  I had a 2400 baud
MK> internal jobber that cost more then a whole PC does these days.  I am
MK> not positive about this, but I think we were already wired with fibre
MK> optics before the move to the Sparcs.  We were pioneers in that respec

Oh it was a trip.  Dial the number, listen, catch moem tone, drop it in the ¨handset.

 CS> BSD I think was the primary kernal?

MK> Could be.  I wasn't that involved to know other then it was VAX/VMS.
MK> That I do recall.  I am not positive but I think tar was part of the s
MK> wrt the tape drives.

Not sure since your history wsas VAX and mine was Sperry, but they had
¨simuluarities and i've used VAX/VMS as well as a host of other mainframe
¨things.


 CS> Hehehe.  I was the SYSOP (old use of the term) for that machine.

MK> I am not sure if we used that term then or it was later on when I hear
MK> it.  I do know that the first BBS I ran across was around that time.

I didnt run into BBS stuff til 1986 or so, years later.

MK> Were they called "batch files" back then?  If so then it
is it any won
MK> I got the impression that DOS was VMS-ish?  Given my limited exposure

Actually, I think I was taught 'script' for the term.  I later translate it
to ¨batch file as the same thing.

                                       xxcarol

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