1 Nov
2024
1 Nov
'24
2:04 p.m.
On Fri, Nov 01, 2024 at 09:33:31PM +0100, Johan Helsingius via cctalk wrote:
UNIX might have been unobtainium in your home, but a
lot of BBS's
used UUCP to get email and USENET connectivity, and a huge amount
of students had modem access to an UNIX computer at their university.
Sure. I ran a BBS on Microport Unix (80286) in the mid-80s. And had
usenet account at a small company on an Onyx system as early as about
1981.
mm
(and had people running uucp on MSDOS systems in the late 80s)