On Sat, May 18, 2024 at 12:02 AM, Mike Alexander wrote:
On 18 May 2024, at 0:22, John Palmer wrote:
I imagine there are some hooks to handle the surcharge mechanism.? As
I recall, it was an hourly charge for using Confer.??
There wasn't a surcharge, at least not for most users, at UM. I presume
the hooks are there but disabled.
At Wayne State, students and other university folks didn't have a surcharge, but commercial customers did.? WSU made some extra cash selling computer time to companies and the government. The U.S. Army was a big Confer user at WSU.?
Speaking of Wayne State, are there any WSU folks on this list? I know Tom Stevenson is around still - he is either retired or getting ready to retire. Also, I thought I saw Steve Gold's name somewhere.
There seems to be a lack of info online about the computing history at WSU, although Simmon's "Computer Comics" are still available.
As for those MTS design / development *FORUM conferences, it would be
great to get those files.? I haven't looked into the file format for
*FORUM, but it keeps some files under ETC. Not sure how easy it would
be to install existing conferences into another MTS instance, but
those design conferences would be very educational and would be a
great resource for people to search for answers.
I have printouts of the final state of most of these *Forum conferences.
I think copies of these may be online somewhere but I'm not sure
where. If not they probably could be, assuming everyone is ok with
that. The MTS Workshop proceedings are definitely online and they
provide much of the same info in a somewhat more formal manner.
Do you have a link for some of those proceedings?? Since archive.michigan-terminal-system.org isn't online, there isn't a common repository of links.? The Wayback Machine (archive.org) has a lot of broken links.
Mike
John
