Article 6163 of alt.sys.pdp10: Path: news3.best.com!news2.best.com!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!newsfeed.direct.ca!novia!uunet!chi.uu.net!dfw.uu.net!news2.amd.com!news.amd.com!canntp.amd.com!txnntp.amd.com!not-for-mail From: Clive Dawson Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10 Subject: Fwd: Dave Poole Lost at Sea? Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 15:18:28 -0600 Organization: AMD Lines: 107 Message-ID: <38288FA4.E81316EB@dvorak.amd.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: labuena.amd.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: amdint2.amd.com 942182308 25359 163.181.232.165 (9 Nov 1999 21:18:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@amd.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 Nov 1999 21:18:28 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en Xref: news3.best.com alt.sys.pdp10:6163 Here's an item forwarded by MRC which might be of interest, especially to those who remember Dave. Clive Dawson ------- Start of forwarded message ------- Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 18:44:51 -0800 (PST) From: Mark Crispin Subject: Dave Poole may be lost at sea If this is true, it is sad news. For those of you who don't know, Dave Poole was the heart and soul of the Foonly. When the Foonly project at SAIL died, many of his designs were subsequently taken over by DEC and became the KL10. Poole subsequently formed the Foonly company, and built a single Super Foonly (a.k.a. the Foonly F1), the fastest PDP-10 ever built, that was installed at III. The Super Foonly was used to produce the graphics used in the movie "TRON". He subsequently built smaller-scale systems, the F2 and F3 (which were KS10 scale), and the F4 which subsequently became Tymshare's 26XL PDP-10 clone that competed with System Concepts' SC-30M. ** Begin Forwarded Message ** Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 14:50:00 -0800 (PST) From: Les Earnest Subject: David Poole Lost at Sea? Vic Scheinman writes: KCBS said this morning that: The Coast Guard has abandoned a search off Alaska for a Mountain View man named David Poole. He's presumed lost after his 52ft. boat was hit by winds of 80-100mph in Glacier Bay. There is also an article in this morning's San Jose Mercury News on page 2B. I know that there is more than one David Poole in the world -- for example, I know another one in North Carolina -- but inasmuch as our former colleague was an avid sailor who was involved in two catastrophic sinkings while he was at SAIL, I would sadly guess that it is probably him. Martin Frost writes: The info below comes from the Coast Guard web site for Alaska, in a release dated yesterday. http://www.uscg.mil/d17/allnews/news99/23499.htm In an unrelated search also in southeast Alaska, the Coast Guard suspend efforts at 3:55 p.m. to find David Poole. Poole left Mt. View, Calif., in September aboard his 52-foot sailboat, the Bird, on a lone trip to southeast Alaska, according to his friend Barbara Aschenbrenner. Aschenbrenner reported Poole missing Friday after she hadn't heard from him in eleven days. Poole last contacted Aschenbrenner Oct. 25 after fueling in Hoonah. Friday afternoon, the Coast Guard used a Sitka-based helicopter to search Glacier Bay and issued radio broadcasts, asking mariners to report any information they may have about Poole's whereabouts. Saturday, a fishing vessel crew found a refrigerator from the Bird in Glacier Bay and contacted the Coast Guard. Coast Guard personnel talked with the craftsman, who custom built the refrigerator, and learned that it must be disassembled to be removed from the vessel. This lead Coast Guard officials to suspect the Bird broke apart and sank, according to Lt. Randy Sundberg, a rescue coordinator at the Coast Guard command center here. Saturday, the Coast Guard used a Kodiak-based C-130 to search for Poole throughout southeast Alaska. Pilots from the Juneau CAP squadron also searched Glacier Bay. Today the 110-foot Coast Guard cutter Liberty, a Sitka-based helicopter, CAP personnel and National Park Service personnel searched for Poole, finding chunks of blue fiberglass, an extra-large lifejacket, a blue tote and other debris suspected to have come from the Bird. Searchers logged more than 67 hours before suspending their efforts to locate Poole. ------- End of forwarded message ------- Article 6173 of alt.sys.pdp10: Path: news3.best.com!news2.best.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.mindspring.net!newsfeed.mindspring.net!firehose.mindspring.com!not-for-mail From: asmoore@ix.netcom.com Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10 Subject: Re: Fwd: Dave Poole Lost at Sea? Date: Thu, 18 Nov 1999 17:58:41 -0800 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Lines: 35 Message-ID: <3834AED1.5FAF@ix.netcom.com> References: <38288FA4.E81316EB@dvorak.amd.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cf.5c.ad.39 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Server-Date: 19 Nov 1999 02:00:00 GMT X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (Win95; U) Xref: news3.best.com alt.sys.pdp10:6173 James A. Crippen wrote: > > Interesting that I didn't hear about this locally (I live in > Anchorage, the largest city in this great state). The local papers > don't appear to have breathed a word about Poole's disappearance. > That's somewhat odd since they usually make a big hoohah about > tourists disappearing in the Alaskan wilderness. If I do see anything > reported in the local media I'll try to post it here as soon as > I can. It was in the Anchorage Daily News (or at least on their website) on November 8th. I, for one, would appreciate any follow-up. > > If this *is* the Dave Poole of Foonly fame, then does anyone have > suggestions as to what I should sacrifice the next time I'm near > Glacier Bay? I might be in the region next summer, and tradition > would demand some sort of small, symbolic item be thrown overboard. > Some bit of unrepairable hardware perhaps? A reference manual? > Source code listings? Regretfully, it is the same Dave Poole, a long-time friend. It was not entirely unexpected, Dave apparently suffered from arthritis, joint pain had already caused him to give up some of his hobbies, and the last time we (my wife and I) were out sailing with him, he spoke of using his boat as a means of suicide... > > Respectfully > ;james Alan Moore (As regards sacrifice, he enjoyed good beer, among other things.) Article 6177 of alt.sys.pdp10: Path: news3.best.com!news1.best.com!144.212.100.101.MISMATCH!newsfeed.mathworks.com!arclight.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.u.washington.edu!Tomobiki-Cho.CAC.Washington.EDU!mrc From: Mark Crispin Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10 Subject: Re: Fwd: Dave Poole Lost at Sea? Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 14:08:59 -0800 Organization: Networks & Distributed Computing Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <38288FA4.E81316EB@dvorak.amd.com> <3834AED1.5FAF@ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: tomobiki-cho.cac.washington.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: nntp1.u.washington.edu 943308542 37666 (None) 140.142.17.40 X-Complaints-To: help@cac.washington.edu NNTP-Posting-User: laporta In-Reply-To: <3834AED1.5FAF@ix.netcom.com> Xref: news3.best.com alt.sys.pdp10:6177 On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 asmoore@ix.netcom.com wrote: > It was not entirely unexpected, Dave apparently suffered from > arthritis, joint pain had already caused him to give up some > of his hobbies, and the last time we (my wife and I) were > out sailing with him, he spoke of using his boat as a means > of suicide... I learned today that, based upon the location of the floating refrigerator (all that was left of his vessel) that he was evidentally trying to get to a safe harbor and nearly made it. -- Mark -- * RCW 19.190 notice: This email address is located in Washington State. * * Unsolicited commercial email may be billed $500 per message. * Science does not emerge from voting, party politics, or public debate. Article 1405 of alt.sys.pdp10: Path: nntp1.ba.best.com!inwap From: inwap@best.com (Joe Smith) Newsgroups: alt.sys.pdp10 Subject: Re: Tymshare 26XL Date: 1 Oct 2000 10:11:33 GMT Organization: Chez Inwap Lines: 22 Message-ID: <8r72kl$mku$1@nntp1.ba.best.com> References: <851yy2c2ut.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell3.ba.best.com X-Trace: nntp1.ba.best.com 970395093 23198 206.184.139.134 (1 Oct 2000 10:11:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@best.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 1 Oct 2000 10:11:33 GMT Xref: nntp1.ba.best.com alt.sys.pdp10:1405 In article <851yy2c2ut.fsf@junk.nocrew.org>, lars brinkhoff wrote: >The most obscure PDP-10 clone, even more so than the MAXC, seems to be >Tymshare 26XL. I've found exactly one reference: > http://www.inwap.com/pdp10/usenet/poole > >Was there really such a beast? Was F4 = 26XL? About 10 of them were built. Four were installed in-house at Tymshare's facilities on Bubb Road or Valley Green Drive in Cupertino, the rest were installed by Doug Engelbart (http://www.bootstrap.org) at an Air Force base back East (Wright-Patterson? Memory is hazy) as part of the OFFICE and AUGMENTATION projects. The prototypes (F4) used a custom board plugged into an Apple ][ for loading the microcode and diagnostics. The production models (26XL, circa 1986) used an IBM PC-XT for that purpose. None of them were sold to outside customers. -Joe -- See http://www.inwap.com/ for PDP-10 and "ReBoot" pages.