[HN Gopher] The Simtel.net MS-DOS Collection ___________________________________________________________________ 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. | | ----------- | | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-02-16 23:00 UTC)