6 Nov
2014
6 Nov
'14
11:15 a.m.
On Thu, 6 Nov 2014, Roe Peterson wrote:
Lord, I actually miss UUCP. I had my own custom
modemcap dialling
routines that interacted with my own getty for dial in/out interlock. We
connected DEMAND+FAST to both decvax and utzoo with telebits, and took a
full usenet feed.
I once met Henry Spencer who ran utzoo as far as I recall. He told me that
their monthly phone bill was in the thousands. My bosses would have never
stood for that.
--
Richard Loken VE6BSV, Unix System Administrator : "Anybody can be a father
Athabasca University : but you have to earn
Athabasca, Alberta Canada : the title of 'daddy'"
** richardlo at admin.athabascau.ca ** : - Lynn Johnston