[Coco] terrifying sysadmins for fun with UUCP was Re: old backups, RESTORED!

[Aaron Wolfe]

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Willard Goosey <goosey at virgo.sdc.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 05:41:14PM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
>> Be careful & don't step on it or kick it.  I've used the 1984 time frame
>> for that and been called a liar by many.  It was 85 when I discovered os9,
>> and I was off the the races.
>
> Actually, I think I said "the early 80's" which is comfortably vague.
> I know LII goes back to 86-ish.  Back when the CoCo was a current
> product I was a BASIC boy, I never could have convinced Dad to buy
> software that cost as much as the computer did. :-(
>
> But at least my sysadmin didn't give me The Look he used when I told
> him about setting up UUCP so my 3b1 could trade email with my Linux
> boxes.  He's a Model 100 nut so he's not completely unsympathetic, but
> he does have limits. ;-)  He gets this wonderful look of abject terror
> when I say things like "I wonder if Taylor UUCP has been compiled for
> MS-DOS with a packet driver."
>
> Humm, I wonder if Rick Adam's UUCP would work over a Drivewire 4
> network link....  HDB config files aren't *that* obscure... :-)
>

Well this must be a mandate from heaven, UUCP over drivewire was a
subject of discussion on the IRC channel earlier today.   We were
thinking it might be fun to set up an all CoCo UUCP net and play
around.  Since DriveWire presents a Hayes compatible modem on a
somewhat regular SCF device,  we should be able to use any existing
dialup software unchanged, provided it will let you use an IP address
in place of a phone number in the ATD command.  Terminal programs and
BBS software have worked for me.

Is UUCPbb the "preferred" implementation for OS9?  It's own
documentation seems to say so :)

Anyone else interested in making their CoCo a node on some sort of UUCP thing?


> Hehehe!
> Willard
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