History Sharan Kalwani History of UNIX user group in Michigan 1986 sharankalwani computerorg rewind to 1986 Merrily working away at Michigan Cancer Foundation in summer of 1986 sort of summer internship ID: 405889
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Random Snippets of History-- Sharan Kalwani*
History of UNIX user group in Michigan (1986…)
*
sharan.kalwani
@ computer.orgSlide2
rewind to 1986….
Merrily working away at Michigan Cancer Foundation in summer of 1986, sort of summer internshipThen a struggling grad student at nearby Wayne State U (aka Wait State U)
Hired me to write a device driver for a tape device on a DEC VAX 11/750
Scientific computing, image processing for scanning cancerous cells thru gel electrophoresisSlide3
rewind to 1986….
A mysterious phone call about folks organizing a mutual help user group was enough to cause me to show upBeing a non-profit and educational site, we had the complete source code to UNIX (system V) and BSD 4.x
Lots of wonderful stories and experiences
inspired by
motd
, we had our very own ‘
motm
’Slide4
1986 thru 1988….
Monthly meetings – usually at some dinner places, some do not even exist any more!Lots of colorful personalities……………more on that throughout the evening!
Plenty of technical topic presentations, recall giving the very first one on:
Fsck
Other topics were:
uucp
vi text editor
etc…
Other titles were sometimes vendor presentations – usually of how great their hardware was, a few notable exceptions (e.g. SGI)Slide5
1988 to 1990….
In 1988 we came up with the bright idea of having a full blown conference and technical, business exhibits
Expo@Detroit
was born in 1988, 1989 and 1990
Lots of enthusiasm in the early days
Topical jokes too! (we were the early role models for the
BiG
Bang Theory!)Slide6
1988 to 1990….
In 1988 we came up with the bright idea of having a full blown conference and technical, business exhibitsExpo@Detroit was born in 1988, 1989 and 1990
Lots of enthusiasm in the early days
Topical jokes too! (we were the early role models for the
BiG
Bang Theory!)Slide7
Speaking of topical jokes….
With UUCP networking, nodes were mostly relays and had the “!” prefixUsually pronounced as “bang”Led to some colorful and creative USENET names sometimes
Example:
node name: gang
user name:
linda
USENET email address thus – ….
gang!linda
Excellent dinner presentation by peter
honeyman
, 2
nd
author and also creator of
pathalias
.Slide8
Volunteer efforts….
UUCP archives were big and limited by physical resources only!
Everything was dial up! ;-)
…
mcf!shan
was my id back thenSlide9
Lots of michigan node names….
See full list at
http://
www.megalextoria.com/usenet-archive/news066f1/b86/comp/mail/maps/00000681.html
tardis
bgalli
fmsrl7
mibte
(how could we ever forget that one!?)
gdsb
,
edsews
,
edsews
,
node,
Most common lament: “all the good ones are taken!”
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