[ih] Why is there (still) spam...?

[the keyboard of geoff goodfellow]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 4:36 AM Nigel Roberts via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> That may indeed be what I was thinking of.
>
> Then again, was it perhaps possible to use that to kill some important
> process?.
>
> It's a very long time ago!
>

if you'd like a remembrance/history refresher head on over to the
Interim Computer Museum's collection of resurrected and online
"ancient" machines (that includes an ITS reincarnation) at

https://icm.museum/

and checkout the [Collections] tab and the [Recollections] tab to get
online
where you'll find the Currently offered remote systems include:

[-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-]
   -+-  SDF Vintage Systems               REMOTE ACCESS  -+-
[-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-]

[a] multics             Multics MR12.8          Honeywell 6180
[b] toad-2              TOPS-20 7(110131)-1     XKL TOAD-2
[c] twenex              TOPS-20 7(63327)-6      XKL TOAD-2
[d] sc40                  TOPS-20 MARS 7(21733)   SC Group SC40
[e] sc40                  TOPS-10 MARS 7.05       SC Group SC40
[f] lc                       ITS ver 1648            PDP-10 KS10
[g] ka1050              TOPS-10 6.03a           sim KA10 1050
[h] kl2065               TOPS-10 7.04            sim KL10 2065
[i] rosenkrantz         OpenVMS 7.3             VAX 4000-96
[j] tss8                    TSS/8                   PDP-8/e
[k] ibm4361             VM/SP5                  Hercules 4361
[l] ibm7094              CTSS                    i7094
[m] cdc6500             NOS 1.3                 DTCyber CDC-6500
[n] sigma9                Honeywell CP-V          sim XDS
[z] bitzone                NetBSD BBS              AMD64
[a] misspiggy           UNIX v7                 PDP-11/70
[c] lcm3b2               UNIX SVR3.2.3           AT&T 3B2/1000-70
[d] guildenstern        BSD 4.3                 simh MicroVAX 3900
[e] snake                 BSD 2.11                PDP-11/84
[f] hkypux                HP/UX 10.20             HP9000/715
[g] truly                   TRU64 5.0               DEC Alpha 200/166
[h] three                  SunOS 4.1.1             Sun-3/160
[i] indy                     IRIX 6.5                SGI Indy R5000
[j] ultra                    Ultrix 4.5              simh MicroVAX 3900
[k] m-net                 FreeBSD 14.2            x86_64
[l] nostromo             DG/UX R4.11             AViiON m88k


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