Re: SAGE calendar

[Leeland Artra <leeland@u.washington.edu>]

Greetings,

zwicky wrote:
> While this year's calendar certainly suffers from accuracy problems
> ("Honey Danber UUCUP"?!?), putting something on every day is a

Well, since everyone else is complaining, ya no kidding...  ;^)

> different question. We'd be thrilled to have something on every day,
> but we need information. Send us those dates! The number of events we

There use to be a huge repository of 'Today in History' in the FIDO Net
BBS systems. It was somewhere around San Fran.  I recall having collected
and merged a number of the data base files for one of my systems.

(Arg dig, dig, dig... I never throw anything data related away...yep
there's that old tape...spin baby spin...)

Ya I still have the old data files. The program was ment to run on an
Amiga, but there was some version for DOS. Although the program is
unusable the data files are text based with an encoding scheme.

Do we really need SA stuff? What about general neato trivia?  I could
write the code to read this stuff easy enough. I could even begin collecting
an SA based file... Something to login into everyday... In fact I
kinda miss my daily history trivia dose.

> could find that were (even remotely) system administration relevant
> and that we could actually pin to specific dates was fairly limited.
> (Admittedly, the collection we came up with is also the result of an
> unscientific survey consisting of me wandering around asking the first
> 30 or so people I ran into at LISA what events they could think of

Oooooo more scientific than most of us have time for!!

> that ought to be on the calendar. We then removed those we couldn't
> tie to actual dates, and added those that appealed to the artist or
> the office staff. That was for the 95 calendar, but I believe 96 is
> using the same collection.)

Well watcha think??

Comments welcome, in fact if some of you out there have more of these
old data files (if you have them you know who you are) please send me
copies... :-)

Cheers,
Leeland

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