Keeping in touch at San Diego USENIX
Brian Kantor
brian at ucsd.EDU
Sat Dec 24 08:46:00 AEST 1988
The terminal room at the last conference was such a hit that
several people got together and organized one for the San Diego
conference.
Speaking only as the local techno-weenie who is trying to get it
all working, what we're planning to do is have a room with a wad
of terminals in it.
Some of these terminals (perhaps five) will be on dial-out modems.
I am told that the hotel is going to charge some amount (less
than a dollar, I believe) for each call; I expect we'll have some
arrangement for you to pay for your calls or charge them to your
room or something. San Diego has Tymnet and Telenet nodes, and a
MILTAC all within the hotel's local calling area, so you may not
have to place any long distance calls. I think there are local
access numbers for most of the popular long-distance carriers
in case you do have to make a toll call.
A few other terminals (perhaps another five or so) will be on a
terminal server connected to the UCSD local network thus giving
remote login (telnet) access to the NSF/internet.
There will be student-type volunteers staffing the terminal room
to help you with the inevitable dial-out and connection confusion, and
the usual yo-yo contest will be held among those waiting for terminals.
Be sure to bring your Duncan.
I'm also hoping to have a network mailbox that prints out short
E-mail messages on paper that can be tacked to the message board.
Probably this will be done by sending mail to
"some_user_name at usenix.ucsd.edu"
or some similar scheme. I suspect I'll limit the message length
to 25 lines or thereabouts to discourage people forwarding their
nightly accounting audits, risks digests, or suchlike.
Our thanks to AT&T/Teletype for offering to loan us some of their
whiz-bang terminals, and to Telebit Corp for offering to loan us
several of their fine Trailblazer modems. Be sure to take some of
their product literature with you.
A great deal of credit for this must go to Sonya Neufer for getting the
whole thing rolling; I'm sure she'll be posting more information as
plans mature and we know more. Anyway, you'll be able to keep in touch
or hide out, as you wish.
Brian Kantor UCSD Office of Academic Computing
Academic Network Operations Group
UCSD B-028, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA
brian at ucsd.edu ucsd!brian BRIAN at UCSD
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