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   Message 5,230 of 5,684   
   Mike Y to All   
   Re: Tandy Videotex and Office Informatio   
   11 Oct 11 14:46:40   
   
   From: joe@user.com   
      
   By the way...  When you sent email to engineers at Tandy in the 1984-1985   
   timeframe, you would send to nameli@trsvax   
   where name was usually (but not always)  first name and last initial.   
   trsvax was originally a vax, but it was so slow and crashed so often it was   
   replaced with a MUX motherboard with Model 16 boards in it, and 4 of the MUX   
   com cards.  This gave the machine 18 com ports.  Trsvax was actually a   
   modified Model 16.  And MUCH more reliable than the vax.   
      
   The vax was then renamed and moved off strictly as a software repository and   
   snoop machine.  At one point there was software on it (allegedly) that would   
   log keystrokes, but then everyone kept a script running at their desk that   
   would open a file, move paragraphs around, put it back, reopen it, edit it,   
   put it back, all day long, just to keep their 'productivity' up.  Management   
   at that time played some really dirty tricks, but then so did the   
   engineers...   
      
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