wb8foz@cucstud.UUCP (David Lesher) (02/24/89)
In article <244@att.ATT.COM> dhp@att.ATT.COM (Price) writes
about donating to the computer museum.
Hmm, it seems to me the computer museum is the ideal place to
provide good publicity to the net. Many visitors go there
every year. While some are on our advanced level ;-}}, others
may know little or nothing of the Wonderful World of Usenet.
A terminal with 'rn' running all the time,
properly set up (no alt.conspiracy or talk.bizarre ;-}) would
provide great exposure to the fact Internet does something
other than feed worms.
Besides some newsreader hacks (such as resetting the
.newsrc file for each visitor) all that is needed is a
terminal, a friendly local port, and a modem.
Any comments?kenneth@turbo.RAY.COM (Kenny Crudup, still in Mass....) (02/28/89)
In article <1950@cucstud.UUCP>, wb8foz@cucstud.UUCP (David Lesher) writes: > ...about donating to the computer museum. > Hmm, it seems to me the computer museum is the ideal place to > provide good publicity to the net. > A terminal with 'rn' running all the time, > properly set up (no alt.conspiracy or talk.bizarre ;-}) would > provide great exposure to the fact Internet does something > other than feed worms. > Any comments? Yeah- put a session limit on it! Usenet can be addictive! BTW, what was ol' 'p4? An 'elevensomething'? Any stats on how many pieces of mail (alone) went thru that machine? -- Kenneth R. Crudup, Contractor, Raytheon AAS/CWS Development Group 1001 Boston Post Road, Marlboro, MA 01752 +1 508 490 2015 kenneth@pebbles.ray.com, ...!rayssd!pebbles!kenneth These opinions are mine, as the Offficial Company Opinion is CLASSIFIED.
hollombe@ttidca.TTI.COM (The Polymath) (02/28/89)
In article <1950@cucstud.UUCP> wb8foz@cucstud.UUCP (David Lesher,Guest) writes: }In article <244@att.ATT.COM> dhp@att.ATT.COM (Price) writes }about donating to the computer museum. }Hmm, it seems to me the computer museum is the ideal place to }provide good publicity to the net. Many visitors go there }every year. While some are on our advanced level ;-}}, others }may know little or nothing of the Wonderful World of Usenet. }A terminal with 'rn' running all the time, }properly set up (no alt.conspiracy or talk.bizarre ;-}) would }provide great exposure to the fact Internet does something }other than feed worms. } Besides some newsreader hacks (such as resetting the }.newsrc file for each visitor) all that is needed is a }terminal, a friendly local port, and a modem. }Any comments? It would have to be a read-only interface. Not many people are going to hang around the museum for the typical one day to three weeks net propagation and response time. Besides, do we really want the maunderings of the great unwashed taking up net bandwidth? (Ok, so we'll create talk.computer.museum and let them scribble their "Kilroy was here" graffitti on it. We won't tell them it's local to the museum's machine (-:{ ). -- The Polymath (aka: Jerry Hollombe, hollombe@ttidca.tti.com) Illegitimati Nil Citicorp(+)TTI Carborundum 3100 Ocean Park Blvd. (213) 452-9191, x2483 Santa Monica, CA 90405 {csun|philabs|psivax}!ttidca!hollombe
daveb@gonzo.UUCP (Dave Brower) (03/01/89)
In <1950@cucstud.UUCP> wb8foz@cucstud.UUCP (David Lesher,Guest) writes: >In article <244@att.ATT.COM> dhp@att.ATT.COM (Price) writes >about donating to the computer museum. > >Hmm, it seems to me the computer museum is the ideal place to >provide good publicity to the net... >A terminal with 'rn' running all the time, >properly set up (no alt.conspiracy or talk.bizarre ;-}) would >provide great exposure to the fact Internet does something >other than feed worms... > Besides some newsreader hacks (such as resetting the >.newsrc file for each visitor) all that is needed is a >terminal, a friendly local port, and a modem. >Any comments? This is the start of a neat idea. More interesting would be a net "time-machine", where you'd get different slices of the net at various times. Setup three or four time slices - way way back, way back, just pre-uunet and nntp (circa "death of the backbone cabal") and "now". Does anyone have a spool directory on tape from the dawn of time? How about a backup containing article 1 of net.general on a historically significant system? (You'd probably want to limit visitors to 10 minutes an era.) -dB -- "I came here for an argument." "Oh. This is getting hit on the head" {sun,mtxinu,amdahl,hoptoad}!rtech!gonzo!daveb daveb@gonzo.uucp