Re: tlug: Mew on (X)Emacs the way to go?

[Jonathan Byrne <jq@example.com>]

On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> (Actually, my first mail environment was TOPS-20 Emacs with RMail.)

Dang!  Somebody who's dealt with one of those! When I worked at SAIC in
San Diego, we had a Dec System 10 running Tops 10 in our computer room.
It had a few legacy applications that ran on it as part of our daily
production.  This was in 1988 - 89.  Somehow, I wouldn't be surprised if
they still had it.  This was a shop that bought 1960s-vintage printers
from the navy data center when they replaced them.  And the military tends
to keep their hardware until it's so old the Smithsonian doesn't even want
it for a museum display anymore :-)

To keep those printers running, we had several dead ones as spares, since
the only way to get a print train was to have one custom built for about
$5,000.  And if you think that's not bad enough, check this: they also had
a revolving drum printer when I worked there.  I'd heard about those
things from my dad, but he hadn't seen one since the 1960s, but they had
one in 1988 and used it everyday.  I wonder if it's still there? :-)

Cheers,

Jonathan

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