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Subject: Re: THe good old days of SF-L
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Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 21:11:00 EDT
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/* Written  5:29 pm  Oct  3, 1985 by jmturn@ringwld.UUCP in ccvaxa:net.sf-lovers */
/* ---------- "THe good old days of SF-L" ---------- */
It (and HNets) were a sufficient load on the MIT-MC mailer that he
had hung a bag onto the side of the COMSAT mailer called PULSAR,
which spread the distribution over 3 machines and 4 hours.

(As a footnote, at the Boskone in 1984, things had improved
enough so that we actually had a panel where Saul Jaffe, Chip
Hitchcock, and I were all participating, and SFL was the main topic).

                           James Turner
                           (The Ringworld Engineer)
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I used to work on an isolated DEC-10 and always wondered what PULSAR was for.

As another footnote, at this year's NASFiC there was a panel on the
electronic fanzine (Chip Hitchcock and John Quarterman participating), and
the main topic of discussion was CompuServe. Blah, blah, blah.

"When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all."
				Roger Zelazny, *Doorways in the Sand*

						Wombat
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