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<p>Wow, what a fine hack! Thanks for the pointer. And now for a
bit of memory...<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">42 years ago, a pal of mine from High
School scored up a set of tickets for us to watch Emerson, Lake
and Palmer at the RPI Field House. All I had to do was get myself
over there... I was almost lucky. As I was a student at WPI,
there were remnants of train service between Worcester and
Rensselaer. After extensive campaigning, lobbying and groveling
to my parents, they bought me a ticket on Amtrak.</div>
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<p>Right in the middle of the biggest snow storm the Northeast had
seen in many years... Amtrak made it through, but I only had
$10 for cab fare (which should have been enough). It was a
pretty nerve wracking ride up to campus. And I didn't have all
the money... So I asked the cabbie to wait while my friend went
to nearly one of his friends in the dorm borrowing the money.
Just as we had gotten it all together, the cabbie came inside
looking distinctly ... <i>concerned</i>.</p>
<p>ELP was late getting on the stage (small wonder) so my friend
took me on a tour of the campus. At the time, RPI had been
running MTS for two years and the big rage was to use that
(timesharing) instead of being stuck with batch and card decks.
We had both been long time users of Tops-10 and really couldn't
understand what the buzz was. We liked that 3270's were waay
faster than the ASR33's we had been using, but did not
understand half-duplex.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I noted that MTS has a HASP subsystem.
Against my better judgement, I downloaded several tapes of IBMSPL
and the DN60 (PDP-11) front end source code and updates and
started perusing them. If there is a different way to speak
bi-sync (maybe over IP), then I don't doubt that I could stub out
the calls to the DN60 and replace them with IP. I'd 'just' need
to fool the user mode JSYS interface (D60JSI).<br>
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<p>Doable, I think. I guess maybe I'll have a look at JNET at
some point.<br>
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coolness here: <a href="https://try-mts.com/why-try-mts/">https://try-mts.com/why-try-mts/</a></div>
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<p>On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 4:52 PM Thomas DeBellis <<a
href="mailto:tommytimesharing@gmail.com"
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MTS would be cool (but it isn't IBM).</p>
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