[ih] SpaceX Starlink in Ukraine and RELCOM during the Soviet coup attempt

[Johan Helsingius]

On 18/03/2022 16:55, Larry Press wrote:

> I was in Moscow for a conference just before the coup attempt and spent 
> a lot of time with RELCOM folks who I had "met" online since we had used 
> the net to organize the conference. Fun fact -- local calls were free at 
> the time, so Vadim Antonov had a Teletype in his apartment that had been 
> online continuously for 6 months.

Small world. :)

I helped to organize the first UNIX conference in Moscow, and
of course had a fair bit of contact with the RELCOM team because
of the connection to us in Helsinki.

Somewhere I still have their UNIX book (as well as Mario Zagar's
UNIX book I got in 1990 as I was a guest speaker at the Yugoslav
UNIX User Group meeting just as Yogoslavia was falling apart.


	Julf