[HN Gopher] The Simtel.net MS-DOS Collection
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The Simtel.net MS-DOS Collection
Author : todsacerdoti
Score : 81 points
Date : 2021-02-16 18:36 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.lanet.lv)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.lanet.lv)
| unixhero wrote:
| For any thing else I recommend ExoDos Collection. It is amazing.
| I want to build a room in my house dedicated to it.
| FlyMoreRockets wrote:
| First I've heard of the ExoDos collection, thanks for bringing
| this to my attention.
| mwcampbell wrote:
| I uploaded a program to this collection in 1995, when I was about
| 15. It was a terminal front-end program called MTerm. It relied
| on a FOSSIL driver (a serial port driver for DOS) and ANSI.SYS
| (or compatible) to do the real work of communication and display,
| respectively. And the Ui was pretty minimal. As such, it was
| quite worthless, really just a vanity project (good thing it was
| freeware). Still, as far as I can recall, it was the first
| program that I ever actually released to the public.
| Thoreandan wrote:
| The SIMTEL20 collection ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simtel )
| was maintained by the late Keith Petersen - W8SDZ.
|
| Keith passed away in 2017, aged 80 (
| https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/freep/obituary.aspx?n=keit... )
|
| I was happy to have met him and thanked him for his services.
| jes wrote:
| In the amateur radio community, hams who pass away are known as
| "Silent Keys," a reference to a telegraph (Morse Code) key that
| is no longer being used. The phrase is poignant to me.
|
| At 61 years of age passing away is for me a thought that
| appears more and more often in consciousness. Yet it's not
| scary or something I dread.
| Jayschwa wrote:
| > Yet it's not scary or something I dread.
|
| Has that always been the case for you, or is it something
| that has gotten easier to think about as you've aged?
| jes wrote:
| I think it's been that I had the sense that I had to
| accomplish great things before I passed away. Strong sense
| of ego, I think.
|
| Over the last five years or so, my perspective has changed
| such that I don't feel any need to accomplish big things or
| act in ways that are self-aggrandizing. One of the things I
| work on from time to time is trying to dissolve a sense of
| ego.
|
| I think all of life comes down to luck, at a very high
| level or in a very abstract sense. I don't believe in free
| will, and I don't think anyone knows why they are doing
| what they are doing in any meaningful way. I do think the
| brain confabulates great stories for ourselves and others
| to explain our actions in the world.
|
| I have mentioned this before, but I like the "Chill Step"
| recordings of Alan Watts on YouTube. Maybe his philosophy
| is just a comforting story, but honestly, would anyone want
| a story that prevented them from being at ease in the
| world?
|
| Thank you for that question.
| myself248 wrote:
| Whoah! I had no idea this started locally. That might explain
| why it was later hosted by Oakland.edu, as well. The excursion
| to White Sands being temporary... ;)
| mtippett wrote:
| Oooh! The memories. First year university in Australia and
| discovering the internet, IPs and FTP. Everything felt _so_
| accessible then. Even 20 3.5 " disks for an install of SLS Linux
| felt easy and effortless... _Now, shoot me if I need to transfer
| not in a network_.
| otherflavors wrote:
| This site can't be reached
|
| sunsite.lanet.lv's server IP address could not be found.
| emayljames wrote:
| https://ftp.sunet.se/mirror/archive/ftp.sunet.se/pub/simteln...
| joerango wrote:
| If you browse around lanet.lv on ftp, there is this file:
| /pub/simtelnet/README Content below.
|
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| This mirror of Simtel.net is closed due to lack of hardware.
|
| You can find all of these files (except deleted old ones) at
| other mirrors. For Latvian visitors Swedish mirror is
| recomended:
| ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/simtelnet/
|
| All file and directory names are identical as they used to be
| in this server under simtelnet directory.
|
| For the web interface of Simtel.net archives look at
| http://www.simtel.net/
|
| EDIT: the referenced site doesn't seem to have the mentioned
| directory anymore.
| madars wrote:
| https://ftp.sunet.se/mirror/archive/ftp.sunet.se/pub/simteln.
| .. and the ZIP files in there seem to work for me
| Wowfunhappy wrote:
| Huh, working here...
| ASalazarMX wrote:
| Try to download any ZIP, it redirects to sunsite.lanet.lv
| which fails.
| tpmx wrote:
| This was such a huge part of my life as a non-BBS-connected 14-19
| year old in the 90s. First via CD-ROM in 1992/1993. Then via the
| Internet from 1995/1996 and onwards.
|
| It was maintained by people working for the US Army at White
| Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The first atomic bomb site
| (Trinity) is nearby:
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simtel
|
| Getting access to the SIMTEL CD-ROM was a fantastic revelation
| for me - so much glorious source code. Especially the
| turbopas/vga directories - but really, that whole CD-ROM kept me
| busy and learning for years.
| ggambetta wrote:
| Oh wow, I had forgotten about this. I uploaded a small utility to
| stabilize joystic values when I was 15 or so, and it is still
| there 25 years later :o
| https://ftp.sunet.se/mirror/archive/ftp.sunet.se/pub/simteln...
| giantrobot wrote:
| The IA has a number of SIMTEL ISOs in their Walnut Creek CD-ROM
| collection [0]. Makes for easy burning for a retro machine.
|
| [0] https://archive.org/details/walnutcreekcdrom
| sgt wrote:
| I remember this. Couldn't help feel both excited and a bit ripped
| off. Being 10 or 11 at the time, seeing things like TeX and
| X-Windows made me think of Texas and X-wing. They didn't work at
| all and for sure weren't entertaining.
| tyingq wrote:
| Crynware packet drivers and NCSA telnet. <- What popped in my
| mind when I saw the title.
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