Reminder to self: find back if non-archived early GMAIL (alias for GOLD MAIL on VAX/VMS) can be found back
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/08
Blog posts I should check:
- Ancient history – found back one of my earliest email messages dated in februari 1989!
- Delphi dcc64 compiler engineer Yooichi Tagawa now on twitter as YooichiTagawa
- Where My Delphi Life Began – via David Millington and Simon Stuart #DelphiWeek
- xyzzy, Relay Conferencing before IRC even existed
- Happy 60th birthday, Fortran
- Some VMS and DCL history links
In the meantime:
- [Wayback/Archive] Jeff Atwood on Twitter: “Without Dave Cutler there would only be Unix today.” on Dave Cutler (who developed RSX-11M, VAXELN, VMS and Windows NT and hopefully at the time of publication is still doing well; at the time of writing he was 80 having worked at Microsoft until at least the age of 70!):
- [Wayback/Archive] The engineer’s engineer: Computer industry luminaries salute Dave Cutler’s five-decade-long quest for quality – Stories
- [Wayback/Archive] Internets of Interest #6: Dave Cutler on Dave Cutler | Dave Cheney (the Tweet that referred to it has disappeared by now and I forgot to archive it in the Wayback Machine or Archive.is)
- [Wayback/Archive] Oral History of Dave Cutler Part 1 – YouTube
- [Wayback/Archive] Oral History of Dave Cutler Part 2 – YouTube
- [Wayback/Archive] Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft by G. Pascal Zachary
- [Wayback/Archive] OpenVMS on a Raspberry Pi – Peter Hicks’ Blog via this epic thread in the middle of the 2020-2021 waves of the Covid-19 Vax era:
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- [Wayback/Archive] Anne Barela @anneb@octodon.social on Twitter: “Have you gotten a vax? Maybe even a second vax? Did you have side effects? Overheating, segmentation faults, bus errors?”
The picture is from [Wayback/Archive] File:VAX 11-780 intero.jpg – Wikipedia.
- [Wayback/Archive] Anne Barela @anneb@octodon.social on Twitter: “Vax issues require a call to an authorized DEC technician, I mean COMPAQ technician, I mean an HP technician, um…”
- [Wayback/Archive] Anne Barela @anneb@octodon.social on Twitter: “Mask (ROM) available for protection against viruses through known vectors”
- [Wayback/Archive] Anne Barela @anneb@octodon.social on Twitter: “This team have their vax! #StaySafe #VAXXED”
I later found that the images was posted in [Wayback/Archive] Digital Equipment Corporation – Random Musings and Observations (which has many more early VAx/VMS, PDP and DEC related images).
- [Wayback/Archive] Anne Barela @anneb@octodon.social on Twitter: “The CDC’s Vax Emulator does run on a Raspberry Pi but does better on larger, faster desserts.”
- [Wayback/Archive] Anne Barela @anneb@octodon.social on Twitter: “How to set up a @Raspberry_Pi #RaspberryPi to run OpenVMS”
- [Wayback/Archive] Anne Barela @anneb@octodon.social on Twitter: “Have you gotten a vax? Maybe even a second vax? Did you have side effects? Overheating, segmentation faults, bus errors?”
Queries and links that should be of help
- [Wayback/Archive] “gold mail” “vax/vms” – Google Search
- [Wayback/Archive] “GMAIL” “VAX/VMS” – Google Search
- [Wayback/Archive] BITNET on VMS
- [Wayback/Archive] “GMAIL” “VAX/VMS” “DCL”-“gmail.com” – Google Search
–jeroen
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