[Info-vax] Looking for a Multi-Tasker article

[Lee Gleason]

"George Cornelius"  wrote in message 
news:LIIGNsp2cpsw at eisner.encompasserve.org...

>That's going to be a tough one, I think, Lee, unless Glenn Everhart
>put those issues on the Sig tapes.  It would have been the Ralph
>Stamerjohn era.  I used to have a telephone number for Ralph because
>he was working a decade ago for a company we do business with, but
>I suspect he is long retired, and probably would disavow any
>knowledge of RSX at this point anyway.

  I don't know Ralph's status (and I don't know if I'd have the nerve to 
contact him - it would be like calling Eric Clapton and asking how to make a 
D chord), but I can tell you, from trying to chase down this article and 
lots of other "archaeological" DEC info and software, an appalling large 
number of the giants in the RSX and IAS world have passed away.

Actually, I did get a copy of this article thanks to Alan Frisbie - he not 
only had that issue, but had things organized well enough to find it.


>A simple search on DECUServe/Encompasserve returns a smattering
>of ancient hits:

  I looked a lot of places but didn't think of searching DECUServe 
discussions for leads - good idea there.

> "The Multitaskers went to Arnold De Larisch, who is working on an
>archival project for the SIG."

Hmmm...may have to contact him...not for this particular article,  but for 
other missing issues in my collection.

  From seeing what the state of availability of Multi-Taskers and DEVias 
newsletters online is (practically none, except for a middlin' slug of them 
on Bruce Mitchell's web site), I'm planning to scan all of mine and make 
them available somewhere, as soon as I divine what the best scanning 
technique and format is. They contain a wealth of information (and a fair 
amount of drama, humor and low cunning) for RSX hobbyists that shouldn't be 
allowed to disappear.

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Lee K. Gleason N5ZMR
Control-G Consultants
lee.gleason at cmcast.net