VUNIC/VUnet Update

From: Anthony Clifton - Retrocomputing.com <vaxcat_at_retrocomputing.com>
Date: Sat Jun 16 16:30:45 2001

I'm going to begin constructing a map in about two weeks when I really get
going on this. I have some equipment pickups over the next week or so of
some Sun equipment, some Microvaxen and some basement cleanup I'm
working on.

After that, I'm going to put up the web page, which will have an interface
to the map database, name registration forms, etc.

The thing will be dirt simple and ugly but we won't let that trouble us. =)

In the meantime, I'm reserving names on a first-come-first-served basis.

I may have to come back to folks and collect further information so the
database will be compatible with the UUCP Mapping Project databases,
which they discontinued last year.

One concern I have is that, even though I've stated that my purpose is
primarily to help Vintage computer collectors, that the general UUCP
will want me to maintain a GLOBAL map. I'm not opposed to this but I'd
need ALOT of help to keep it up to date, etc. Or maybe not.

But, sometimes, if you build it, then will come.

Anthony Clifton
Des Moines, Iowa

>I'd like 'tempest'. BTW, has anyone actually started constructing
>a map?
>
>--
>Chris Kennedy
Received on Sat Jun 16 2001 - 16:30:45 BST