11 Mar
2021
11 Mar
'21
9:26 p.m.
In 1972, while in high school, I went to an Intel seminar on the 8008.
There I met a Bell Labs scientist who gave me a sample 8008 and invited
me for a visit at some NJ Bell Labs facility. That group had a
timesharing system of some kind, but it was not Unix. I was also given a
Bell Labs speech synthesis kit after meeting one of the speech
scientists who happened to be in on the same Saturday. I have searched
my attic but can't find further details. Would any of you alumni recall
what this other timesharing system might have been?
Dan
11 Mar
11 Mar
11 p.m.
On 11.03.2021, at 16:26, Dan Halbert
<halbert(a)halwitz.org> wrote:
In 1972, while in high school, I went to an Intel seminar on the 8008. There I met a Bell
Labs scientist who gave me a sample 8008 and invited me for a visit at some NJ Bell Labs
facility. That group had a timesharing system of some kind, but it was not Unix. I was
also given a Bell Labs speech synthesis kit after meeting one of the speech scientists who
happened to be in on the same Saturday. I have searched my attic but can't find
further details. Would any of you alumni recall what this other timesharing system might
have been?
Not an alumnus of anything (alas, I am far too young and not clever enough), but maybe
this was GECOS? (Origin of the name of the pw_gecos field in UNIX..)
Mike
11:45 p.m.
On 3/11/21 12:00 PM, Mike Knell wrote:
I do not think it was GECOS. I have a memory of him demonstrating a
FOCAL- or BASIC-esque language running on some commercial minicomputer,
but it was not one of those and I don't think it was a DEC machine.
Perhaps it was not timesharing, but he showed it to me from his office
terminal, I think, not in a lab.
On 11.03.2021,
at 16:26, Dan Halbert <halbert(a)halwitz.org> wrote:
In 1972, while in high school, I went to an Intel seminar on the 8008. There I met a Bell
Labs scientist who gave me a sample 8008 and invited me for a visit at some NJ Bell Labs
facility. That group had a timesharing system of some kind, but it was not Unix. I was
also given a Bell Labs speech synthesis kit after meeting one of the speech scientists who
happened to be in on the same Saturday. I have searched my attic but can't find
further details. Would any of you alumni recall what this other timesharing system might
have been?
Not an alumnus of anything (alas, I am far too young and not clever
enough), but maybe this was GECOS? (Origin of the name of the pw_gecos field in UNIX..)
Mike
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