Now that takes me back, was working odd hours then so I got logs of a lot
of meetings like this, but I am not an archivist so, man, wow, talk about
the wayback machine.
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Harold Hale
[Traveller_TNE]
<> wrote:
>
>
> From GEnie...if you don't know what that is, in the days before the World
> Web Web, there were subscription services that allowed you to communicate
> in real time and send out messages mailing list style within the system.
> We used GEnie, which stood for 'General Electric Network for Information
> Exchange'. Most people back then had a 28.8k modem (broadband, what's
> that?), though eventually 56k modems were introduced. We were talking
> about the creation of TNE.
>
> Clay is no longer with us sadly, but how many of the rest of us are still
> around?
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> Item 2577824 93/01/08 23:21
>
> From: M.MIKESH Michael R. Mikesh
>
> To: GDW.SUPPORT Loren K. Wiseman
> T.MCINNES2 Terrence R. Mcinnes
> C.BUSH3 Clayton R. Bush
> S.OLSON4 Scott D. Olson
> ROB.PRIOR Robert J. Prior
> H.HALE1 Harold D. Hale
> G.VIDELL Greg P. Videll
>
> cc: S.SCHWARTZ22 Steven Eric Schwartz
> J.KUNDERT James R. Kundert
> M.GELINAS Mark E. Gelinas
> B.BORICH Bryan J. Borich
> R.LONG19 Richard E. Long
> P.SANDERS Jerry P. Sanders
> LSP.MEYERS John C. Meyers
> ED.EDWARDS Edward A. Edwards
> K.BRENNAN2 Kevin J. Brennan
> V.UJCIK Vaclav G. Ujcik
> P.DRYE Paul J. Drye
> SCORPIA Scorpia, Games RoundTable
>
> Sub: Traveller On-Line Conference
>
> The Conference is still on for Tuesday, Jan 12, 9pm EST.
> Many of you are probably not aware of how to use the On-Line
> Conference area, so I'll give a brief overview.
> First off, go to menu 805 to get to Scorpia's area, then pick
> option 2 to go into On-Line Conference. At that point, you'll have
> the option to go into one of 10 rooms. Unless you hear otherwise,
> pick Room 4, the Adventure room. (Room 3 will probably be active as
> well, but that's not us.)
> While you're in the room, whenever you type something and hit
> return, you'll see the line you typed repeated, preceded by your
> GEnie address. The repeated line will also appear on everyone else's
> screens as well. (Remember to shorten your lines to account for the
> extra length added by your GEnie address, otherwise the line will wrap
> on people's screens.)
> To get out, type '/exit39;, and GEnie will take you back to menu
> 805. For additional commands you might find convenient, type '/help39;.
> (These won't appear on other people's screens.)
> Protocol. To keep things simple, if you want to say something
> that takes more than one line, deliberately break each line so that
> none end with a period, if possible, until the last.
> To answer a question Terry posed earlier, we do not have any kind
> of formal agenda (unless Dave or Loren have something in mind). This
> is primarily a brainstorming session. We might learn more about how
> GDW's thinking is running on TNE. But its not complete by any means,
> and they're looking for input from us.
> In preparation for the conference, here are some ideas you
> might consider:
> 1) Thoughts regarding the Character Generation draft (file 5527).
> 2) What does it take for a world to raise in tech level? Is it
> a matter of investing resources? What are the other parameters or
> limiting factors? How fast can a TL rise?
> 3) More about the questions Frank raised on the board regarding
> jump drives and ship computers.
> 4) What kind of product support you'd like to see for New Era.
> 5) Adventure ideas.
> I don't have to tell anyone here that certain things are set in
> stone, like Traveller going to the House System and the Virus. But
> others that might join us could try to debate moot points like this.
> If so, maybe you "old hands" could help clue these folks in and keep
> the dialogue on a constructive track.
> MIKE
>
>
>
> =END=
>
>
>
--
Evyn
of meetings like this, but I am not an archivist so, man, wow, talk about
the wayback machine.
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Harold Hale
[Traveller_TNE]
<> wrote:
>
>
> From GEnie...if you don't know what that is, in the days before the World
> Web Web, there were subscription services that allowed you to communicate
> in real time and send out messages mailing list style within the system.
> We used GEnie, which stood for 'General Electric Network for Information
> Exchange'. Most people back then had a 28.8k modem (broadband, what's
> that?), though eventually 56k modems were introduced. We were talking
> about the creation of TNE.
>
> Clay is no longer with us sadly, but how many of the rest of us are still
> around?
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> Item 2577824 93/01/08 23:21
>
> From: M.MIKESH Michael R. Mikesh
>
> To: GDW.SUPPORT Loren K. Wiseman
> T.MCINNES2 Terrence R. Mcinnes
> C.BUSH3 Clayton R. Bush
> S.OLSON4 Scott D. Olson
> ROB.PRIOR Robert J. Prior
> H.HALE1 Harold D. Hale
> G.VIDELL Greg P. Videll
>
> cc: S.SCHWARTZ22 Steven Eric Schwartz
> J.KUNDERT James R. Kundert
> M.GELINAS Mark E. Gelinas
> B.BORICH Bryan J. Borich
> R.LONG19 Richard E. Long
> P.SANDERS Jerry P. Sanders
> LSP.MEYERS John C. Meyers
> ED.EDWARDS Edward A. Edwards
> K.BRENNAN2 Kevin J. Brennan
> V.UJCIK Vaclav G. Ujcik
> P.DRYE Paul J. Drye
> SCORPIA Scorpia, Games RoundTable
>
> Sub: Traveller On-Line Conference
>
> The Conference is still on for Tuesday, Jan 12, 9pm EST.
> Many of you are probably not aware of how to use the On-Line
> Conference area, so I'll give a brief overview.
> First off, go to menu 805 to get to Scorpia's area, then pick
> option 2 to go into On-Line Conference. At that point, you'll have
> the option to go into one of 10 rooms. Unless you hear otherwise,
> pick Room 4, the Adventure room. (Room 3 will probably be active as
> well, but that's not us.)
> While you're in the room, whenever you type something and hit
> return, you'll see the line you typed repeated, preceded by your
> GEnie address. The repeated line will also appear on everyone else's
> screens as well. (Remember to shorten your lines to account for the
> extra length added by your GEnie address, otherwise the line will wrap
> on people's screens.)
> To get out, type '/exit39;, and GEnie will take you back to menu
> 805. For additional commands you might find convenient, type '/help39;.
> (These won't appear on other people's screens.)
> Protocol. To keep things simple, if you want to say something
> that takes more than one line, deliberately break each line so that
> none end with a period, if possible, until the last.
> To answer a question Terry posed earlier, we do not have any kind
> of formal agenda (unless Dave or Loren have something in mind). This
> is primarily a brainstorming session. We might learn more about how
> GDW's thinking is running on TNE. But its not complete by any means,
> and they're looking for input from us.
> In preparation for the conference, here are some ideas you
> might consider:
> 1) Thoughts regarding the Character Generation draft (file 5527).
> 2) What does it take for a world to raise in tech level? Is it
> a matter of investing resources? What are the other parameters or
> limiting factors? How fast can a TL rise?
> 3) More about the questions Frank raised on the board regarding
> jump drives and ship computers.
> 4) What kind of product support you'd like to see for New Era.
> 5) Adventure ideas.
> I don't have to tell anyone here that certain things are set in
> stone, like Traveller going to the House System and the Virus. But
> others that might join us could try to debate moot points like this.
> If so, maybe you "old hands" could help clue these folks in and keep
> the dialogue on a constructive track.
> MIKE
>
>
>
> =END=
>
>
>
--
Evyn