[COLUG] Re: recommendations for revision control system

[Paul M. Dubuc]

Rob Stampfli wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 09:28:56AM -0400, Stephen Potter wrote:
>> I was a kid in the CCS and heavily involved in the local BBS scene back  
>> in the early/mid 80s (it's also possible you remember my father, who was  
>> also Stephen Potter, who was somewhat involved with the running of the  
>> CCS for a couple of years; I remember doing the preparation of the  
>> newsletter and taking it down to the post office for bulk processing).   
>> I was an Explorer at ATT/Bell Labs (Post 891) in the '86-'88 time frame  
>> with Dennis McNellis, Fred Wiles, and Jim Corder.  Many local Unix  
>> people either got started there or were involved there.  I moved to  
>> Florida in '88 and came back to Wright State in '89 after finishing high  
>> school.  I eventually went back to Florida (and other places for awhile)  
>> before coming back to Columbus in '97 when Dad died.  When I came back I  
>> did awhile at Lucent, admining mostly for the NNS project, the  
>> Chemical/Chase merger and move from Wilson Bridge to Easton, the  
>> ATT/IBM/B1 T1A "outsource" of the bank's internet group and Y2K, Qwest,  
>> Sterling, and finally back to B1/JPMC.  I also got back involved with  
>> 891 and Post/Crew 369 for awhile until I had kids and ran out of time.
> 
> Wow.  Thanks for sharing this info.  I might have met you in Explorer
> Post 891 at some point.  I was involved with that, too, although not
> so much in a hands-on role in the later years.  But I'd often help
> Dennis and Fred get the kids rounded up and into the building in the
> evening, and I'd occasionally pitch hit for someone.
> 
> Small world.
> 
> Rob

I'll say.  All this talk about the early days of Usenet, cbosgd, etc. has 
given me a spell of nostalgia.  I started working for BTL in Columbus in 1979 
(left Lucent in 2001).  Columbus has Operating Systems Group (OSG) which 
supported our own flavor of UNIX (CB-UNIX) for used by local projects.  cbosgd 
was originally one of their devlopment machines, I think.  I remember Dennis 
McNellis.  My wife worked with him in the Columbus comp. center for a few 
years.  I also remember Mark Horton in the early years as the one who brought 
the vi editor to Columbus (so he claimed).  What a breakthrough to have a full 
screen editor.  Used ed before that.  Never went back. Still using vi (vim).

Paul Dubuc