On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 11:30:51AM -0600, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
> (Credit the Quotas thread for prompting this.)
>
> Did anyone ever use process accounting? Did they actually bill departments
> (funny money)?
When I was an undergrad at Drake University the 'academic' VAX, running
VMS 6.
On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 05:18:03PM +0100, Tony Duell via cctalk wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 3:42 PM, Pontus Pihlgren via cctalk
> wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 21, 2017 at 09:34:52AM -0500, Jay West via cctalk wrote:
> >>
> >> But that being said... we should have had a party or something *grin*.
>
On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 01:03:36PM -0400, Murray McCullough wrote:
> What role did Star Trek play in the rise of small computers that are
> so ubiquitous today? This science fiction series prognosticated many
> things but how many actually happened or am I expecting too much from
> a television sho
On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 01:37:55PM -0600, Swift Griggs wrote:
>
> Here's my top 3 weirdest devices I've ever sent email through, just for fun:
>
Back in my college days, I witnessed a friend use a TI-92 with a crude
terminal emulator and a TI-Link cable wired to the serial port on the
campus Rol
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 03:32:27PM -0400, et...@757.org wrote:
>
> I would cut multiple tapes of anything you care about!
>
It's not simply enough to cut multiple tapes (backups) of anything you
care about --- you must periodically *read* and *verify* those tapes
(backups), so that you can re-co
