[ih] Larry Roberts & RD the first electronic mail manager software [was written in TECO on TENEX]

[Chet Ramey]

On 8/8/23 3:04 PM, the keyboard of geoff goodfellow via Internet-history wrote:
> interesting that you mention teleconferencing and Case (CASE-10 PDP-10
> Tenex), John... as Jim Calvin (also from Case and then to BBN) wrote IIRC
> his degree thesis on a teleconferencing client(TALK) and server (TELSER)
> that operated from multiple client hosts... i.e. we all didn't have to be
> logged into the same system to chat.
> 
> when Jim graduated from Case yours truly ran a copy of it on SRI-AI to try
> to help facilitate what was known at the time as The Friday Night Forum...
> where a bunch of us would congregate on a host such as MIT-AI or SU-AI that
> could support more than 5 users LINKed together on Tenex.

It's always good to see Case come up! Folks here did a lot of good work.

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