I loved alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt... only lurked there, but it was
sweet... are there any newer alternatives out there these days?
----- Original Message -----
From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2002 10:45 PM
Subject: Re: 7/01/97 ClassicCmp FAQ - Part 1
> On Jan 5, 15:23, Marvin Johnston wrote:
> > Tony Duell wrote:
>
> > > > With so much OT stuff going on, this FAQ might be interesting
reading
> > > > for some of the newer members of this listserver. And just for the
> sake
> > > > of curiosity, who has been on the list the longest? I joined
sometime
> > > > around June 5, 1997.
>
> Beats me by over half a year. According to my old mail archives, I
> subscribed thus:
>
> From pete Thu Feb 26 01:01:17 1998
> To: listproc_at_u.washington.edu
> Reply-To: pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com
> Status: OR
>
> subscribe CLASSICCMP pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com
>
> And two days later, in a private email to someone else, I concluded:
>
> (signed by Pete, still watching 60+ messages coming off his POP mbox :-( )
>
> It was a fairly busy list even then.
>
> > Just out of curiosity, how did you hear about the listserver? I found
> > out about it when Bill posted something to alt.computers.cpm (or
> > something like that.) It seems like quite a few people on this list were
> > also active on that newsgroup at that time.
>
> I subscribed after seeing something on a newsgroup, and it was very likely
> either comp.os.cpm or alt.folklore.computers. Other groups I read then
> were mostly vmsnet.*, alt.sys.pdp*, alt.sys.perq, comp.sys.acorn.*,
> uk.telecom, rec.pyrotechnics, a few other comp.sys groups, and the
now-dead
> alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt.
>
> --
> Pete Peter Turnbull
> Network Manager
> University of York
>
Received on Sat Jan 05 2002 - 20:54:52 GMT