[geeks] Apple software: the stuff you "gotta have"

[Michael Thompson]

Your email machine belonged to DEC's Internal Software Services 
group, and was a model KL1090, Serial number 1122.
The Retro-Computing Society in Providence has a KL10 1090.

1122    TOPS-10 DEC ISWS (TWINKY) "TWONKY"      PK1/C2  KL1090

Message: 2
>My first "real" E-mail was when I started at Digital in 1983. We had
>corporate-wide DECnet-based E-mail, and my address was TWINKY::FRANCINI.
>
>Yes, the computer was named TWINKY.
>
>Why?  Good question.
>
>Because, on DECsystem-10s and 20s, and (maybe still) on VMS, the SET
>HOST command (DECnet equivalent to Telnet) also took the female form,
>of SET HOSTESS.
>
>So.....
>
>
>there had to be a Hostess Twinky (singular), so that you could SET
>HOSTESS TWINKY.
>
>
>Thank you, thank you, I'll be here all week.
>
>j


Michael Thompson