Talk:I. P. Sharp Associates

666 mailbox[edit]

On IPSANET, the software is called 666 BOX. Which was it officially called ? John Vandenberg 07:00, 30 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It's called 666 box, the name of the workspace to be loaded. There was another workspace called 666 mailbox which provided a full-screen (3270) interface to the same underlying e-mail facility. Roger Hui 21:49, 30 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Officially it was called "mailbox"..

One has to know that APL was not a system where people used some sort of personal moniker to "login", but rather "singed in" using an account number. The lower account numbers were reserved for the system and the higher for users.

The original mailbox system, which only supported a 3 character Email addresses, was written by Larry Breed and available on APL/360 systems in the late '60's. A young hackers compromised that system and it's new author presented it as "666 mailbox".

To this date I have yet to hear of an Email system before Larry's original work in the '60s. [Kevin Harrell]

Leslie Goldsmith has a description of the origins of 666 box at http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/APLQA.htm#666box. In it he spoke of 666 box being the second commercial e-mail systems he knows of, the first being written in 1971 by Frank Bates of Mobility Systems. Roger Hui (talk) 23:54, 3 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

March3, 2017 edits[edit]

I have changed reference to Victoria and Halifax offices to Ottawa. Those offices supported APL time-sharing rather than RCN. I was technical director of the Ottawa office for much of1966/67. APL section Although Brian Daly was an Etobicoke native, he was based in Ottawa when he was selling APL. Appellation ZOO may have originated with Mike Goudge. Somebody should ask Ian. Rdmoore6 (talk) 13:56, 3 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]