fdc@columbia.edu

fdc@columbia.edu

I've been laid off! My last day was June 30th, 2011, and then I spent the next three months cleaning up after myself:

Disposing of my books, manuals, and other historical items, a surprisingly big job. The list alone was a big job... The historical records of the Kermit Project are now at the Computer History Museum... and the Superbrain too!
Releasing open-source versions of C-Kermit, E-Kermit, and Kermit 95 (click here for details).
Cataloging the Kermit software archive.
September 29, 2011: I've put up a new Kermit Project website at http://www.kermitproject.org, let's see what comes of it. Thanks to Panix Public Access Networks Corporation for hosting it.

"Love that Legacy", Gary Anthes, COMPUTERWORLD, 4 July 2005.
"Warum Frank aus N.Y. nicht von Frankfurt lassen kann", Inga Schulze, Frankfurter Neue Presse, 22 June 2006.

2005
Frank da Cruz, formerly:
Director, Communications Software Development
Columbia University Information Technology (CUIT)
Columbia University
612 West 115th Street
New York NY 10025
USA

[ Columbia 1968 ] [ International Postal Addressing ] [ UTF-8 Sampler ] [ Running ]
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The Kermit Project - Columbia University

The Kermit Project - Columbia University (Software) (1981-2011): Overview: http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/
C-Kermit for Unix and VMS: http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ckermit.html
Kermit 95 for Windows: http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k95.html
E-Kermit for embedding: http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ek.html
Kermit Bibliography (1984-present): http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/biblio.html
The New Open Source Kermit Project (2011-????): Home page: http://www.kermitproject.org

Columbia University Computing History

History of Computing at Columbia University (1879-present): http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/
Computing at Columbia (Columbia 250, 2004): http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_perspectives/write_history/61.html
Wallace Eckert, Computer Pioneer (Columbia 250): http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/your_columbians/wallace_eckert.html
The DECSYSTEM-20 at Columbia University (1977-1988): http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/dec20.html
Watson Lab Conduit Trenching (May 1985): http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/conduit

The Neighborhood

University Food Market (1957-2003): http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/ufm.html/ (English)
http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/ufm-es.html/ (Spanish)
La Rosita (December 2006): http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/larosita.html
Upper Manhattan Running Zone (May 2006): http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/running/
Columbia University Photos (April 2002): http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/cu/200204/
Columbia Area Photos (December 2002): http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/cu/200212/

Countries, Languages, Character Sets

Frank's Compulsive Guide to Postal Addresses (1988-present): http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/postal.html
UTF-8 Sampler (text in many languages) (2000-present): http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/utf8.html
Say PEACE In All Languages! (March-April 2003): http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/pace
Table of HTML symbolic character entities: http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/entities.html
Teclas para español (for a particular Windows XP computer): http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/misc/teclas.html
Representing Middle English Manuscripts on the Web with UTF-8 (August 2002): http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/st-erkenwald.html
Interchange of Non-English Computer Text (1994): http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/accents.html
HTML (Web-page) sample and tutorial (for making simple Web pages "by hand"): http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/sample.html

Germany

Frankfurt American High School (Army-brat history from the 50s and 60s; 2003-present): http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/frankfurt/
Messerschmitt Kabinenroller (und andere Kleinwagen) (1954): http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/frankfurt/messerschmitt.html
BMW R-26 (1956): http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/frankfurt/bmw-r26.html

Politics

Columbia University 1968 (the student uprising): http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/1968/index.html
Don't Trust Anyone Under 50! (Columbia 250, 2004): http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_perspectives/write_history/282.html
¡No confies en nadie menor de 50!: http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/cincuenta.html/
Election 2010: http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/election2010.html
Election 2008: http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/election2008.html
Election 2006: http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/election2006.html
To My Republican Friends (Election 2004): http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/election.html

[ Proyecto Yano ]

Publications

The Kermit File Transfer Protocol (with B. Catchings), BYTE Magazine, June and July 1984.
Kermit, A File Transfer Protocol, Digital Press (1987), 379pp; with Foreword by Donald Knuth. In print for 14 years.
"Using C-Kermit" (with C. Gianone), Digital Press (1992), 514pp, also published in a German edition by Verlag Heinz Heise, Hanover.
Using C-Kermit (with C. Gianone), 2nd Ed, Digital Press (1997), 622 pp (still in print).
Kermit 95 (with C. Gianone), Manning Publications (1996), 88pp. Reissued periodically in updated electronic editions.
Internet RFC 2839 (with J. Altman), May 2000.
Internet RFC 2840 (with J. Altman), May 2000.
“Circumnavigating the Web with MS-DOS Kermit”, On The Internet, Internet Society, Vol.1 No.2 (May/June 1995), pp.48-52.
A series of articles in McGraw-Hill Data Communications magazine (with C. Gianone), 1987-88.
Forewords and Prefaces in various data communication and networking books, e.g. Quarterman's The Matrix, and listed in the acknowledgements of many others (e.g. McNamara's Technical Aspects of Data Communications).
Various articles in Kermit News, the journal of the Kermit Project, 1986-93.
"Columbia 1968", Columbia Librarian, V.XXVII, 1-2, Fall-Winter 1999, and on the Web at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/1968.html.
"Columbia University Computing History", IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, V24#2, April-June 2002 (Abstract) and on the Web at http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/
What's The Difference?, with Charles Harris, Reading is Fundamental, 1970.
A photo credit in the book Berlin Mitte und die Welt – wie sie einmal war 1914-1989, P.J. Ortmann (self-published 2009).
A photo credit in the book John Lennon: All I Want Is the Truth by Elizabeth Partridge (2005).
A photo credit in Fortune Magazine, China edition, August 2001.
Pictured on front page of ComputerWorld, July 4, 2005, quoted in accompanying article about companies that don't stop using older computers just because they went out of style.
Feature article in Frankfurter Neue Presse, 22 July 2006: "Warum Frank aus N.Y. nicht von Frankfurt lassen kann" by Inga Schulze

Miscellaneous

Milestones in the Annals of Junkmail (July 2002): http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/george.html
No Wax Please!: http://www.columbia.edu/~fdc/nowax.html

Frank da Cruz / fdc@columbia.edu