strangest systems I've sent email from

On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 01:37:55PM -0600, Swift Griggs wrote: Back in my college days, I witnessed a friend use a TI-92 with a crude terminal emulator and a TI-Link cable wired to the serial port on the campus Rolm system phone in his room connect to the campus VAX/VMS system and send an email. Unfortunately, the terminal emulator didn't have support for sending the ^Z character the editor required to close the file, so we had to switch the cable to a conventional editor to send that, but I feel we gave it the good ole college try. The same phone system allowed you to dial random phones, so another bored evening when we probably should have been studying we spent 20 minutes dialing the room phone and hissing into it when we picked up --- a different friend managed to make the thing spit out CONNECT 1200.... That VAX, by the way, ended up in my garage about three years after I graduated, and it made it from central Iowa through the years to now sitting about 25 feet from me at my current job in Manhattan. -- Thomas L. Kula | kula at tproa.net | http://kula.tproa.net/