Re: Project DELTA

[Jim Stallings <jim@mcws.net>]

It would be nice, but if they give you any problems, let me know.. I can
host the site for free.  As for you club site, let me know if you need a
new home like www.dra.com or whatever.

Jim

Bob & Cecelia wrote:

> I ogled the web site... Great!  I love the search engine page.  I think
> you forgot one we use a great deal;
> http://www.ualr.edu/~hamradio/callsign.html Also, if I may criticize,
> it's DEC- Digital Equipment Corp. that does Alta Vista.  Due to the
> impending takeover by compac, we're testy about our identity, or future
> lack thereof!
>
> I'm not sure how much longer our web page is welcome at UDEL... I must
> admit to thinking it's a groovy idea to have the DELTA site at UDEL.
>
> Cecelia
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   Jim Stallings [SMTP:jim@mcws.net]
> Sent:   Monday, April 20, 1998 5:19 PM
> To:     Bob & Cecelia
> Subject:        Re: Project DELTA
>
> Think we really need to get together to remember the stories that we
> want to and
> not want to sell!  Do you have a place to host the site?  If not, I can
> stick it
> on deltos.mcws.net and give you all telnet and ftp accounts. Let me
> know.
>
> I will read the history...  or should I....
>
> Bob & Cecelia wrote:
>
> > Nope, this is not in the history.  It came from this mail message:
> >
> > No personal web site.  It's enough to do the DRA.  I think there's a
> > pic of Bob in there holding the ladder in the article "the 10
> > commandments of electronics (or electricity??)
> >
> > Here's the unofficial history, revised for 1998 "PC" standards.  When
> > the DELTA web site gets going it'll be in there.  I'd be interested
> in
> > knowing what you thought... so far, only Alan, Bob & I have read it
> > (within the last 20 years, that is).
> >
> > A quick search for your uncle shows he's not a current member of the
> > DRA, but that doesn't mean one of us hasn't met him.
> >
> > Any stories you can tell of the time at DELTA?  Remember, anything
> you
> > tell us will be held against you, & printed in the web site.
> >
> > Cecelia
> >
> >
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------
> >
> > Subject: Re: unofficial history
> > Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 09:40:16 -0400
> > From: Alan Flippen <flippen@nytimes.com>
> > To: Bob & Cecelia <n3lym@amsat.org>
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Nice to hear from you again. Yes, by all means, feel free to argue
> with me
> > about any of the changes, if you think there's stuff that really
> should be
> > left in there. I always like to get feedback. The one thing I would
> note is
> > that softening my tone on the subject of Ed Jones is not a new idea;
> I
> > decided within a few months of writing this that I had been too hard
> on him.
> > He was far from perfect as an administrator/manager, but he did the
> best he
> > could given that his immediate bosses were difficult to work with.
> >
> > Have you located Ed Jones yet? What's he doing? I've seen him only
> once
> > since Ernie's wedding (he organized a canoeing trip on the upper
> Delaware
> > for several ex-Deltoids round about '82 or '83). And thanks for the
> update
> > on Ernie; I was wondering whether he and Joyce had lasted.
> >
> > This whole episode keeps bringing back memories of things that never
> made it
> > into the "unofficial history." E.g. the weekday during the summer
> while we
> > were in 011, when Jim Stallings went to the Deer Park and bought us
> all a
> > bunch of beer, which we poured into empty Coke cans and drank right
> under
> > the noses of Boas and Uffelman (Stallings even offered Uffelman a sip
> of his
> > "Coke", causing the rest of us to nearly die stifling our laughter).
> Or the
> > time when Rich Thomson discovered the Stanford Glossary of Hacker
> Jargon (I
> > think he downloaded it over the pre-Internet) and made us all start
> using
> > words like "crufty" and "foo." (Oddly enough, I discovered recently
> that the
> > Jargon Glossary, much updated, is now available on the Web. I went
> and
> > looked at it and discovered that the PDP-11 is now considered one of
> the
> > legendary hacker machines and those who knew how to hack it are minor
> > celebrities in that world.)
> >
> > Ah, memories ...
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Alan
> >
> > At 01:23 PM 4/18/98 -0400, you wrote:
> > >Howdy Alan,
> > >
> > >I just reformatted & printed the revised history.  I have to admit
> to
> > >not having read it yet, but I won't keep quiet about the revisions
> (if
> > >I don't like them, that is!).  I did peruse the new forward, I
> > >especially liked  the  "capturing a moment" bit.  (I wondered why
> Bob
> > >used to like Gennie Ale so much!)
> > >
> > >We use word 7.0 too so any future revisions can just be a word doc.
> > >
> > >Bob & Ernie (Perez) are at the Trenton Computer Fest selling
> "basement
> > >collectibles", I saw a 300 baud modem in Bob's stuff.  Ernie is
> doing
> > >well.  He & Joyce divorced 3 years ago or so.  Ernie Jr. is just
> about
> > >16 (taller than his old man too), Chris (14) & Amanda (13) finish
> off
> > >the pack.  If I remember I'll ask Ernie about the appendix... he's
> just
> > >the type to still have it (packrat with a big house).
> > >
> > >I've found 2 more:
> > >
> > >Jim Stallings  jim@mcws.net
> > >Dave Wiley dave_wiley@amrcorp.com
> > >(I sent mail to SABRE... thanks for the tip.)
> > >
> > >
> >
> >   ----------------------------------------------------------------
> --------
> >
> >                                  Name: ProjectDELTArevised.doc
> >    ProjectDELTArevised.doc       Type: Winword File
> (application/msword)
> >                              Encoding: base64



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Sorry Bob, I don't think you are with the right person.

Have a nice day.

John Mathews




n3lym@amsat.org on 18/04/98 20:04:49

An:   mathews@titan.fullerton.edu, JMathews@swin.edu.au,
      jmathews@swin.edu.au, mathews@fullerton.edu, jmathews@svg.com,
      jdm@psu.edu, john_mathews@sonydadc.com
Kopie:     (Blindkopie: John Mathews)
Thema:    Project DELTA




Hi,

Is this the same John Mathews who once who worked at Project Delta?
If that's you, please respond with what you've been up to and your
current vital stats. I'm trying to update the Delta alumni list. I'm
also hoping to put together a Project Delta alumni web page including
various pictures and writings as well as a PDP-11 emulator running
RSTS/E. If you still have any Delta memorabilia, pictures, or backup
tapes (I can read them!), please let me know!  If you know of any
deltoid e-mail addresses send them along!

Regards,

Bob Mader [1,50]