hello everyone,all that reminds me my beginning in on line
connections.Before the only connections I did were point to point with
modem to exchange data with my pdp11 .Real online connections were with
Compuserve,at that time ,I do not remember precisely but it was between 1985
and 1990 ,I did not have a peecee , 'only' tektronix 4052
,and a pdp11/23,and some terminals,to connect here in France I had to use
transpac,a bridge with x25 mode ,for that I first began with a 1200 bauds
modem,a Tektro 4010 and a hard copy unit (4631?) to 'save' programs and data
,the silver paper
was so expensive that I soon used a vt220 an a printer and normal paper
,still no computer...after I connected my pdp .It was at Compuserve that I
found the first freeware programs for my pdp ,had lots of
discussions ,met lots of kind peoples
I still have all those machines,I think I still have listings obtained at
that time from the 4631 tektro hcu,but they are becomming white ,I do not
remember my id :-((((...thanks to all ,and thanks very much Compuserve
Alain Nierveze in France
----- Message d'origine -----
De : "Ethan Dicks" <ethan.dicks at gmail.com>
? : "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Envoy? : lundi 6 juillet 2009 04:28
Objet : Re: Goodbye Compuserve
On 7/5/09, Mark Davidson <mdavidson1963 at
gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone have any idea what they are going to do with all those old
machines?
If I had a good answer, I'd have already rented a truck. ;-)
I _think_ they will end up either as spares for the ones at WorldCom
(since there are still machines from before the split running a few
miles away) or end up somewhere else. At no time have I heard a
breath of a hint that they were tossing them out, damn the luck.
-ethan