* Posts by Daniel Bourque

4 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jan 2008

Enterprising techie took the bumpy road to replacing vintage hardware

Daniel Bourque

pre-2000 testing

1999 was a very good year to get rid of old, obsolete stuffs.... Sorry, it don't pass the 2000/01/01 testing.....

Nobody would ever work on the live server, right? Not intentionally, anyway

Daniel Bourque

Allways

Assume Nothing

Trust nothing

Check Everything

WarGames IMSAI machine for sale (again)

Daniel Bourque

Imsai 8080

I've done lot of programming on this system in a Raman spectroscopy Chemistry research lab. It had 48 KB of RAM and 2 SSSD 5,25" floppy. In the end, it was running the spectrograph, controling temperature of the sample, doing data acquisition and displaying the spectra in real time... and interfacing with the IBM Mainframe to transfert data, impersonnating an APL terminal... You knew what section of the program was running just checking the LED display panel.

That was quite a tool when I left in 1982. Been told it was just trash in the end... Too bad.

Military industrial complex aims to revamp email

Daniel Bourque

There is a distributed PKI commercial e-mail system

Look at the documentation on www.Echoworx.com site. They have built a PKI distributed system e-mail system using the big Telco company across the world.

PS: No, I am not from or have interest or use their system...