brian@ucsd.EDU (Brian Kantor) (12/24/88)
The terminal room at the last conference was such a hit that several people got together and organized one for the San Diego conference. Speaking only as the local techno-weenie who is trying to get it all working, what we're planning to do is have a room with a wad of terminals in it. Some of these terminals (perhaps five) will be on dial-out modems. I am told that the hotel is going to charge some amount (less than a dollar, I believe) for each call; I expect we'll have some arrangement for you to pay for your calls or charge them to your room or something. San Diego has Tymnet and Telenet nodes, and a MILTAC all within the hotel's local calling area, so you may not have to place any long distance calls. I think there are local access numbers for most of the popular long-distance carriers in case you do have to make a toll call. A few other terminals (perhaps another five or so) will be on a terminal server connected to the UCSD local network thus giving remote login (telnet) access to the NSF/internet. There will be student-type volunteers staffing the terminal room to help you with the inevitable dial-out and connection confusion, and the usual yo-yo contest will be held among those waiting for terminals. Be sure to bring your Duncan. I'm also hoping to have a network mailbox that prints out short E-mail messages on paper that can be tacked to the message board. Probably this will be done by sending mail to "some_user_name@usenix.ucsd.edu" or some similar scheme. I suspect I'll limit the message length to 25 lines or thereabouts to discourage people forwarding their nightly accounting audits, risks digests, or suchlike. Our thanks to AT&T/Teletype for offering to loan us some of their whiz-bang terminals, and to Telebit Corp for offering to loan us several of their fine Trailblazer modems. Be sure to take some of their product literature with you. A great deal of credit for this must go to Sonya Neufer for getting the whole thing rolling; I'm sure she'll be posting more information as plans mature and we know more. Anyway, you'll be able to keep in touch or hide out, as you wish. Brian Kantor UCSD Office of Academic Computing Academic Network Operations Group UCSD B-028, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA brian@ucsd.edu ucsd!brian BRIAN@UCSD