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account to get one, I think. I don't remember whether it was open over that summer or not." He identified several other of the original authors: Sandro, MyTH?, Rudy Keiser, and Trouble Shooter. Later on, other folks like keith, Brett Hogden, Pete Lin (Peto), Jim Elliott and Greg Warden also contributed. | |||||||
| CONNECT had thirty six possible discussions, each referred to by a single letter or number. The discussion "A" and discussions "0"-"9" were reserved, while "B"-"Z" could be created by users. "A" was the default discussion - where new users ended up as they tried to figure the system out. Numbered discussions initially were unknown and used by administrators and insiders only. Eventually, some were made public. The discussion name policy had an impact on user names, forcing them to be at least two characters long, so it would be clear if a send was going to a user or a discussion. | ||||||||
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Maker, one of the original authors, recalls "Work on CONNECT began in April of 1986. By the fall, we actually had it set up to allow anyone who wanted an account to get one, I think. I don't remember whether it was open over that summer or not." CONNECT had thirty six possible discussions, each referred to by a single letter or number. The discussion "A" and discussions "0"-"9" were reserved, while "B"-"Z" could be created by users. "A" was the default discussion - where new users ended up as they tried to figure the system out. Numbered discussions initially were unknown and used by administrators and insiders only. Eventually, some were made public. The discussion name policy had an impact on user names, forcing them to be at least two characters long, so it would be clear if a send was going to a user or a discussion. | |||||||
| CONNECT was the main CMC system used by the RPI-ACM community in the late 80's. It was written in Pascal and ran on RPI's IBM mainframe under the MTS operating system. In May of 1991, shortly after most students had gone home from the summer, the officers of the RPI-ACM were notified that Connect was using an undue amount of resources on the Mainframe, and that it would no longer be allowed to run. Despite a frantic effort to keep it going, ACM-Connect was shut down at 2100 hours on 30 June, 1991. | ||||||||
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CONNECT was the main CMC system used by the RPI-ACM community in the late 80's. It was written in Pascal and ran on RPI's IBM mainframe under the MTS operating system. Several later CMC systems (including Clover, lily and Gangplank) were patterned after CONNECT's user interface. | |||||||
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In the Spring of 1986, members of the RPI-ACM began work on a program called the ACM Network Server, whose purpose was to use the (then new and innovative) networking facilities available through the campus mainframe to allow multiple people to simultaneously use a variety of programs available from the server. With some help from ITS and some serious hacking, a working prototype was produced relatively quickly. | |||||||
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The Network Server was the platform for its perhaps most recognized use - Connect. Connect was designed to be a "real time conferencing system" which was capable of juggling upwards of fifty users at a time, exchanging messages between them. For its time, Connect was a highly advanced sys- tem, once called the "Rolls Royce" of Computer Mediated Communications. In its later years, members of the RPI community used Connect for a broad range of uses. Since it used the network services, each user didn't have to pay MT$ to run the program. This was considered a definite advantage. CONNECT was the main CMC system used by the RPI-ACM community in the late 80's. It was written in Pascal and ran on RPI's IBM mainframe under the MTS operating system. In May of 1991, shortly after most students had gone home from the summer, the officers of the RPI-ACM were notified that Connect was using an undue amount of resources on the Mainframe, and that it would no longer be allowed to run. Despite a frantic effort to keep it going, ACM-Connect was shut down at 2100 hours on 30 June, 1991. | |||||||
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