Farewell to wsmr-simtel20.army.mil
Richard F. Drushel
Today was the shutdown of wsmr-simtel20.army.mil, one of
the few (if any?) remaining DECsystem 2060s on the net. This was
my favorite site for CP/M software, and I found a few MS-DOS
items of interest as well. Out of curiosity and as a tribute, I
had an open anonymous ftp session when the machine was disconnected.
Here is the session log; thank you, simtel20.
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cwbiol2.cwru.edu> date
Thu Sep 30 17:27:05 EDT 1993
cwbiol2.cwru.edu> ftp wsmr-simtel20.army.mil
Connected to wsmr-simtel20.army.mil.
220 WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL FTP Server Process 5Z(119)-7 at Thu 30-Sep-93 15:27-MDT
Name (wsmr-simtel20.army.mil:drushel): anonymous
331 ANONYMOUS user ok, send real ident as password.
Password:
230-WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL is owned and operated by the U.S. Army White Sands
230-Missile Range, New Mexico. SIMTEL20 is usually always up, except for PM
230-on the first Wednesday of each month, 4pm and 8pm Mountain Time (GMT-7).
230-Send problem reports to ACT...@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL.
230-
230-*** Due to funding constraints, realignment of mission functions, ***
230-*** and Department of Army downsizing; ***
230-*** SIMTEL20 will cease operations !!! ***
230-*** 30 September 1993 - 1600 HOURS Mountain Daylight Time ***
230-*** Only one more day of SIMTEL20 operations! ***
230-
230-Only nine ANONYMOUS FTP logins are allowed during weekday prime time, 5am
230-to 3pm Mountain Time, but 27 all other times. Try restricting your
230-connection attempts to those "other times" for best results.
230-* New ANONYMOUS users: please "get 00-readme.txt" and read it. *
230-
230-SIMTEL20 files are also available by anonymous ftp from mirror sites
230-OAK.Oakland.Edu (141.210.10.117), wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4),
230-archive.orst.edu (128.193.2.13), ftp.uu.net (137.39.1.9), nic.funet.fi
230-(128.214.6.100), src.doc.ic.ac.uk (146.169.3.7), nic.switch.ch
230-(130.59.1.40), archie.au (139.130.4.6), or nctuccca.edu.tw (140.111.3.21).
230-See also the CDROM.INF file for CD-ROM availability information.
230- The system will go down today at 17:27:54 until 1-Jan-2000 00:00:00
230 User ANONYMOUS logged in at Thu 30-Sep-93 15:27-MDT, job 33.
ftp>
[...]
ftp> !date
Thu Sep 30 18:05:35 EDT 1993
ftp> !finger @wsmr-simtel20.army.mil
[wsmr-simtel20.army.mil]
User Personal name Job Subsys Idle %CPU TTY Console location
??? 6 2.6 211 Aida.Update.UU.SE
14 4d11 Detached
16 4d11 Detached
18 EXEC 1.6.213 TACOM-EMH1.ARMY.MIL
24 1d23 216 Internet NVT
ANONYMOU FTP-only Guest 15 FTPSRT 3:06 0.1 215 Internet NVT
25 FTPSRT 2 0.2 221 devax.admin.athabascau.ca
33 FTPSRT 0.6 227 cwbiol2.BIOL.CWRU.Edu
34 FTPSRT 2.3 231 [192.56.137.12]
GHICKS Greg Hicks 29 EXEC 0.6.224 Rota Spain
MRC Mark R. Crispin 17 EXEC 6.2.212 panda.wa.com
TTAYLOR Thad T. Taylor 19 EXEC 1 0.4. 40 VI102 (9600)
W8SDZ Keith Petersen 12 REMARK 0.4.220 Remote: Warren, Michigan
ftp>
[at this point, I had to leave to pick up my daughter from school. I left
the terminal logged in. When I returned to the lab 20 minutes later...]
ftp> !date
Thu Sep 30 18:25:48 EDT 1993
ftp> !finger @wsmr-simtel20.army.mil
[wsmr-simtel20.army.mil]
connect: Connection timed out
ftp> bye
cwbiol2.cwru.edu>
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Tom F Karlsson
> Today was the shutdown of wsmr-simtel20.army.mil, one of
> the few (if any?) remaining DECsystem 2060s on the net. This was
> my favorite site for CP/M software, and I found a few MS-DOS
> items of interest as well. Out of curiosity and as a tribute, I
> had an open anonymous ftp session when the machine was disconnected.
> Here is the session log; thank you, simtel20.
Here in Uppsala, Sweden we still have a 2060 running.
Not with anonymous ftp, though...
> ftp> !finger @wsmr-simtel20.army.mil
> [wsmr-simtel20.army.mil]
> User Personal name Job Subsys Idle %CPU TTY Console location
> ??? 6 2.6 211 Aida.Update.UU.SE
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Here it is !! :-)
> 14 4d11 Detached
> 16 4d11 Detached
> 18 EXEC 1.6.213 TACOM-EMH1.ARMY.MIL
> 24 1d23 216 Internet NVT
> ANONYMOU FTP-only Guest 15 FTPSRT 3:06 0.1 215 Internet NVT
> 25 FTPSRT 2 0.2 221 devax.admin.athabascau.ca
> 33 FTPSRT 0.6 227 cwbiol2.BIOL.CWRU.Edu
> 34 FTPSRT 2.3 231 [192.56.137.12]
> GHICKS Greg Hicks 29 EXEC 0.6.224 Rota Spain
> MRC Mark R. Crispin 17 EXEC 6.2.212 panda.wa.com
> TTAYLOR Thad T. Taylor 19 EXEC 1 0.4. 40 VI102 (9600)
> W8SDZ Keith Petersen 12 REMARK 0.4.220 Remote: Warren, Michigan
/Tom
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Lars J Poulsen
> Today was the shutdown of wsmr-simtel20.army.mil, one of
> MRC Mark R. Crispin 17 EXEC 6.2.212 panda.wa.com
> W8SDZ Keith Petersen 12 REMARK 0.4.220 Remote: Warren, Michigan
I am sad, to see SIMTEL go, but touched that b oth Mark and Keith could
attend the funeral !!
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Brett Person
I'd like to thank all the mainatainers of Simtel for their work over the
years. I guess I think of it as the original ftp site.
When I started using the Internet Simtel was one of the first machines I
learned to FTP things from. It is also the machine that I associate the most
with what was arpanet. To this day I was typing its address ( occasionally)
as simtel20.army.mil.
A question: What exactly is going to happen to the hardware that was
simtel20?
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North Dakota State University
per...@plains.nodak.edu || per...@plains.bitnet
Paul Martin
> Today was the shutdown of wsmr-simtel20.army.mil, one of
>the few (if any?) remaining DECsystem 2060s on the net. This was
>my favorite site for CP/M software, and I found a few MS-DOS
Well, we still have the primary mirror site at oak.oakland.edu:/pub/cpm
I do hope that whatever system is set up to replace the MSDOS archives
can find time to support the very infrequent uploads of CP/M software.
--
Paul Martin <p...@nowster.demon.co.uk>
...!uunet!demon!nowster!pm
[PGP 2.3 public key available]
W. Leroy Davis
: I'd like to thank all the mainatainers of Simtel for their work over the
: years. I guess I think of it as the original ftp site.
: When I started using the Internet Simtel was one of the first machines I
: learned to FTP things from. It is also the machine that I associate the most
: with what was arpanet. To this day I was typing its address ( occasionally)
: as simtel20.army.mil.
I too have fond memories of first learning to FTP from SIMTEL ... *sigh*
: A question: What exactly is going to happen to the hardware that was
: simtel20?
If they are "upgrading" thier computer resources, the process will be as
follows:
A) They are required (by public law) to screen for anyone in the Army
that has submitted a request for computer resources. If this machine
will meet the request, it will be transferred and Uncle Sam will not
have to spend any more of our tax dollars.
B) If there are no matches, then the computer gets turned into the Defense
Reclamation Management Office, who will screen the other services.
C) If the other services don't want it, the screening process continues
through Federal and Civil agencies.
D) If noone is still interested, consideration is given to donation to
charitable orginizations or loaning it to museums.
E) Finally, if nothing else, they will auction it off to the highest
(public) bidder.
As a quick aside, this auction is announced in the Commerce Business Daily,
but the screening cycle has to be 90 days. So, be looking for a New Year's
sale!
W. LeRoy Davis
le...@netcom.com
Jim Frost
>I'd like to thank all the mainatainers of Simtel for their work over the
>years. I guess I think of it as the original ftp site.
I agree, I got a lot of mileage out of ole' simtel20, especially
before the ARPA split and its resultant renaming. Thanks guys.
jim frost
ji...@centerline.com