How the Mac was born... supposedly...

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On Wed, 12 Jan 2005, Al Kossow wrote:

>
> > I miss 'ihnp4' and will always wonder where Indian Hills is.
>
> ihnp4 was an impressive machine, indeed. much of the uucp traffic
> in the midwest went through it.
>
> Bell Labs Indian Hill is on the far west side of Chicago. 5ESS was
> developed there. A friend that worked there was the first person I
> knew who had Unix running at home (starting with mini-unix, then V6)

Ah, the memories.  I remember how elYte one used to be if you actually had
Unix running at home.  People went apeshit over getting a copy of SCO for
cheap.  I think that was probably a big part of the initial attraction to
Linux: a Unix box of your own.

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Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
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