The A T & T Equipment


In the fall of 1985, AT&T donated the following hardware:
2 3B20s
50 3B2s
OS: AT&T System V UNIX

In 1986 a packet monitor for the Sytek network was attached to a 3B2. I wrote the following software in C on the 3B2 to use this hardware:

PMON - a program to capture connects and closes and log them to a disk file
SMON - a program to monitor sessions and log them to a disk file

In July of 1986, a USENET connection was made to the 3B20s.

In 1987 I ported from the Honeywell system a terminal full screen form package and database updater in C to the 3B2 and converted it for System V UNIX using the curses library. It was originally written in December of 1982. There was basicly four parts to the program.

  1. A basic set of library routines that could be called by a program to use the graphics capabilities of various terminals
  2. Format - A screen form building and editing program that used the basic library routines that allowed the user to build and edit screen forms
  3. Record - A record discription building and editing program that used the basic library to allow the user to build and edit record descriptions
  4. An advanced set of library callable routines that allowed a user to write full screen form data building and editing programs

The user defined data items by name, data type and form position with the Format program. The user defined data items by name and record position with the Record program. The user then wrote a program to use the above definitions by calling the advanced routines. For example, the Update routine is called with the format file name and the record file name. It creates the intersection of the item name lists from the two discription files and displays those items in the form for the user to view or update.

In 1988 I wrote an OSCAR (Operating System ChAnge Request) program that allowed system programmers to keep track of their work requests using the above full screen package.


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