I was a relative late-comer to the BBS Scene. My parents were rather frugal when it came to the telephone (we didn't even pay for touch tone, which was an added charge per month. Yep, we were pulse-dialers until the bitter end when AT&T finally said "we're turning off …

I've been thinking a bit about the computer collection I have and how to streamline what's there. Over the years I've been blessed with folks that have given me all sorts of unique and interesting computers that I've cherished. Unfortunately some of them have also been in the "just stored …

Checking in for June for my "Designing a Well-Lived Life" blogging. This is about making small changes during the year to make larger changes.

• Focus on health (exercise, eating, stress): Today is my 10th chemo treatment. I've been focusing on trying to keep myself stable in-between each treatment. I haven't …

• Title: A Quarter Century of UNIX
• Author: Peter Salus
• ISBN: 9780201547771
• Link: Open Library
• Rating: 4/5

Summary:: A dense book detailing the history of UNIX from its inception to the mid 1990s.

A Quarter Century of UNIX is both a history of the UNIX operating system from its humble …

I'm currently reading "A Quarter Century of UNIX" by Peter Salus. It's a combination "I was there" and oral history of the genesis and adolescence of UNIX up until 1995. It describes the early days of UNIX where it was a Bell Laboratories "research project" (more like the quest of …