From: Jeff Ogden Subject: Hello Date: June 30, 2020 at 10:57:32 AM EDT To: Rupert Lane I don't think we've been in direct contact before. I just want to say thank you for your work creating your try-mts.com site. I am curious. How did you learn about MTS and what got you started on creating try-mts.com? I, myself, used MTS starting as an undergraduate student at the University of Michigan in 1969. I earned money for school in the early 1970s with several part-time temporary student jobs using MTS. I became a regular staff member at the UM Computing Center in 1974. I eventually retired from the University of Michigan in 2005 after working at the Computing Center, the Merit Network, and at the UM Medical Center. -Jeff From: Rupert Lane Subject: Re: Hello Date: July 2, 2020 at 7:24:07 AM EDT To: Jeff Ogden Hi Jeff, Thanks for the kind words! I have no real-life exposure to MTS, just an interest in computer history. Back in 2014 or so I took the Coursera course "Internet History, Technology, and Security" which mentions Merit and MTS. I had not heard of MTS before so googled around, found the Michigan Terminal System Archive (kudos on such a well organised site) and got it running quickly. I was intrigued by the system and thought it would be an interesting project to investigate further from a contemporary point of view - both as a writing exercise and also maybe to inspire some other people to look at MTS, as I think it should be wider known. A little bit about me: was born in England, studied electronic engineering at the University of London in 1989 (using a mix of PCs and Sun workstations - so I just missed the timesharing era) then worked as a C and then C++ programmer in various places. I am currently an engineering manager for indeed.com and am based in Japan. If there's anything I could do to help MTS do let me know. Rupert On Jul 3, 2020, at 12:54 AM, Mike Alexander wrote: Thanks for forwarding this. He was at the University of London the same year I was.
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