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ucbvax!decvax!duke!cincy!pur-ee!aef
Wed Jun 17 23:20:37 1981
Pur-ee on Usenet
** 'Pur-ee' has joined the Usenet NewsNet. **

This is 'pur-ee', reachable via several routes, currently on the Usenet
news network by way of 'duke!cincy!pur-ee'.  Our system is operated by
the Purdue Electrical Engineering Department, George Goble manager of
the system, at West Lafayette, Indiana.

This machine is a Vax 11/780 with 8 Mb of memory, three 300 Mb CDC disk
drives, one 6250 BPI mag tape drive, and other peripherals.  We have 6
Able DMAX's connected to our system at the present time providing 96
terminals, and support 30+ other ``pseudo'' terminals which come in
over a network implemented using Dec DMC's to 2 PDP11/70s, 4 PDP11/45s,
and one other Vax. We are running Berkeleys 4.1 BSD in production as
modified by ourselves where necessary.  Our system typically supports
50 to 60 users doing largely instructional programing although 70 or
more users have often been logged in at the same time.  Our main
headaches come from having nearly 3000 online accounts at the present
time.  Within a few weeks our second VAX 11/780 will begin operation.

We have one auto-dialer which currently only operates using Vadic 3400
operation, and daily call ucbvax, teklabs, and call other sites as
necesary.  We have a hardwired link to the Computer Science Department
Vax 11/780 system as well. Our dial-in hardware currently supports both
Vadic 3400 and Bell 103 operation.

Other UNIX sites at Purdue (some of which will be joining the net soon)
include the CS Dept Vax 11/780 and the Physics Dept 11/44.  The CS Dept
is known as ``purdue'' and the Physics Dept is known as ``pur-phy''.

Several contacts here include myself, Art Feather (aef), George Goble
(ghg), and Peter Miller (pete).  We can be contacted via:

UNIX mail: teklabs!pur-ee!
	   ucbvax!pur-ee!
	   decvax!pur-ee!
	   duke!cincy!pur-ee!
		among others...

USPS mail:
	Purdue University
	Electrical Engineering Dept
	West Lafayette, IN 47907

From pur-ee!aef  Tue Jun 23 02:40:48 1981
To: ucbvax!mark
Subject: Re: Usenet Connection Info
Status: R

Thanks for the usenet connection info.  We will probably stick with our
one connection for now.  However, if others want to poll us to get
news, we will probably have no problem with that.  We pay for all phone
calls outgoing (long distance) out of strict departmental funds, and
repayment from others would cause a real beaurocratic paper shuffle
that probably wouldn't be worth any amount of hastle.  We would prefer
prior agreement, however on any uucp type connection.

Here is the form you asked for; with this and the notification I sent
out earlier, you should have a good deal of information on us now!!

			Art


******  USENET FORM  ******
	
Name of site:  pur-ee
What the site is all about:
	Purdue Electrical Engineering Network -- Vax #1
	part of a 10 machine high-speed computer network (1-Mbaud links)
	consisting of 3 Vax11/780s, 2 PDP11/70s, 4 PDP11/45s, and 1 PDP11/40.
	All 11's except one run V7, with that one running a Purdue version
	of the V6 UNIX system.  All Vaxes run Berkeley 4(.1) BSD.

Name of contact person at site:  Art Feather
Electronic mail address of contact person:  pur-ee!aef
		(via ucbvax, teklabs, decvax)
U.S. Mail address of contact person:  
		School of Electrical Engineering
		Purdue University
		West Lafayette, IN  47907
Phone number of contact person: 317-494-3188
		or call George Goble 317-493-9479

How the site is connected into usenet (what kind of link,
who the neighbor(s) are):
	Usenet:	cincy   - Univ. Cincinnati EE Dept. - called in
	Uucp:	ucbvax  - UCB                       - call out (long distance)
		purdue  - Purdue CS Dept.           - direct connect link
		pur-phy - Purdue Physics Dept.      - call to (local)
		decvax  - DEC support               - called in
		ihuxa   - Bell Labs Indian Hill     - called in
		  .....among others......

Willingness (or lack thereof) to connect to new sites that
want to join usenet.  If you run uucp, tell if new sites can
call you, if you will poll them, what your policy is.
	See above response.  Willing for call in, with prior agreement.

If on the arpanet, are you willing to forward news on to new
sites by establishing an arpanet usenet connection?
	NOT on arpanet, yet...

If you want to publish your uucp phone number, login, and password,
include that info.
	Not willing to publish numbers, etc., due to the fact that there
	are only two dial-in ports at this time, which are technically
	dedicated for faculty use.  We are willing to have other uucp
	sites call in, but wish prior agreements if to be done on a regular
	basis...



