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pdb@cs.uq.oz.au (Peter Barnes (P.D.)) writes:

>For those with long memories (and trivia buffs), uqcspe was named when
>there were NO domains, and every host-name had to be unique. Back then,

And mail took three days to round trip to the US (if you were lucky) and
on a sunny day the queue would clear for a few minutes and you could see
forever...

Ahh, there were less than 200 newsgroups and up to a Meg a day of news
although when there was a blockage (when wasn't there?) then you might
get up to 4Mb in one hit (watch the news partition choke on *that* one).

Guest accounts were sought after feverishly and e-mail was a luxury, not
a privelege.  The earth shook when a 200k sendfile took place and the
Gods (with names like Eoin) were closer to the realms of man and dinosaurs
stalked the land (well, plastic ones).

>the machine was a Perkin-Elmer 32xx, hence the name: uq-cs-pe.
		   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Which migrated from psych, I believe, where it's early days were spent
crunching FFTs and acting as a polite Rogue and Search host.  Now "psych"
is a name with a truly ancient lineage.

>uqcspe has been on the network continuously for more years than I care to 
>remember, was once the Queensland network hub, and has variously been a 
>Perkin-Elmer, a microVax-II, and a SparcStation.

I'm waiting for it to become a 486 running 386BSD...

An end of an era perhaps but lets not overreact.  As long as the name lives
on then there is hope in the hearts of the young and UQ hackers are better
than QUT hackers anyday. :-)

>Ave atque vale uqcspe(.cs.uq.oz(.au))!

Itsay allay reekgay tohay mehay (pardon my conjugations).

Miles, quo vadis
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