strangest systems I've sent email from

My first experiences with internet mail would have to qualify as the weirdest. My family gained access to the internet in 1988. We'd dial into the NMSU terminal server (my mother was a professor there) and connect from the terminal server to an S/390 running VM/ESA and do an IPL CMS to get to a reasonable shell that afforded access to e-mail, the XEDIT editor, and the Charlotte web browser. The challenge was that for the first few years, we didn't know we needed a 3270 emulator, so CMS would go into a strange mode that only somewhat worked... If you made a mistake in typing, you had to start all over. But, I ultimately figured out how to get a SLIP connection going from the terminal server and use a proper TN3270 client to access the mainframe instead of ProComm Plus. It wouldn't be until 1994 that the university allowed access to the public internet directly through SLIP or PPP. I want to set up a VM environment on Hercules to relive those times, now that I am light years more competent. -- *John P. Willis* Coherent Logic Development LLC M: 575.520.9542 O: 575.524.1034 chocolatejollis38 at gmail.com http://www.coherent-logic.com/