[TriLUG] Google Fiber Triangle Build out

[Reginald Reed via TriLUG]

On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 3:09 PM, Gregory Woodbury via TriLUG <
trilug at trilug.org> wrote:

>  The last incarnation of The Wolves Den BBS in Durham was a unixbbs
> instance
> on a custom tower PC that was a birthday present from my Dad. It had two
> 320MB
> hard drives and was running SCO UNIX.  It nearly got caught up in the
> Operation
> Sundevil E911 computer fraud sweep, and one person reported me to AT&T for
> "selling" UNIX when I floated the idea of allowing paid members of the BBS
> to have
> access to the UNIX command line.
>

My first real access to *ix systems was SCO Xenix 286.  In 1987, I ran
Xenix 286 on an old AT clone that I built from the money I got from the
Atari 520ST I sold and scraps from the copy I worked at during summers and
college breaks (CACI).  It had *3* Seagate ST419 full height MFM hard
drives, 15MB formatted - one of them sat outside of the case because there
wasn't enough room!

The hostname of that machine thumper because I thought it was a cool name -
little did I know that thumper was a well known machine within Bellcore.
That meant, when I had an acquaintance set me up with a UUCP link for a few
newsgroups and email, people had to use to address my machine with a more
complete path:  ...!uunet!bilver!thumper!rjr to email me.  Definitely good
times that started my lust for Unix :)