11 Mar
2021
11 Mar
'21
5 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