[TUHS] hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu

Steve Mynott steve.mynott at gmail.com
Sun Aug 26 04:59:01 AEST 2018


On Sat, 25 Aug 2018 at 19:45, Steve Mynott <steve.mynott at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Back in the early 90s before the FSF withdrew the service due to misuse it
> was possible to write off to them to get a free shell account on "hal" as I
> did. I recall having to telnet through one of three gateway systems so
> assume it was on its own little subnet.
>
> But I can't remember what sort of system (hardware or OS) it was now
> however and wondered if anyone else did?
>

https://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/Manuals/finger-1.37/html_node/finger_17.html
mentions "spiff" (which rings a bell as one of the systems) as a "Sony"
which must have been a NEWS-OS (BSD) system.

-- 
Steve Mynott <steve.mynott at gmail.com>
cv25519/ECF8B611205B447E091246AF959E3D6197190DD5
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