On Apr 15, 2007, at 5:00 PM, Harold Hallikainen wrote:

> The earliest posting I can find that I made

I'm starting to confuse the issue.  "westfw" was the name I first used
on the ARPANet, starting in about 1978 (6-letter usernames, first five
letters of the last name and first initial; a school standard.)  I got
the free accounts at MIT under "billw", and was billw through most of
my career.  However, I missed getting "billw" on most of the free and
commercial email services (yahoo, google, etc); I guess it's a pretty
popular name :-(  So I've reverted to "westfw", which goggles real well.

xmodem for tops10:
http://groups.google.com/group/fa.info-cpm/browse_thread/thread/ 
1826bb3801bfafe3/abaa1b9631e34c0d? 
lnk=st&q=westfw&rnum=1&hl=en#abaa1b9631e34c0d

Is the first thing google knows about, but it only goes back to 1981
(which was my graduation year.)  There were a couple things I published
to "the internet (well, ARPANet) at large" earlier, including an 8085
emulator, and an implementation of the SUPDUP client for tops10.

The xmodem thing is actually one of my more legitimate claims to early
internet fame.  I later wrote a version for tops20, which became the  
version
used by the army/etc to do downloads of CPM/MSDOS software from the  
original
Simtel-20 repository of freeware/shareware/etc.

BillW

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