5 Jul
2009
5 Jul
'09
6:39 p.m.
On 7/5/09, David Griffith <dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu> wrote:
I was under the impression that the classic
Compuserve was discontinued at
least ten years ago.
Nearly all the old menu-based content probably did vanish 10 years
ago. The dial-up networking, the octal PPNs, the e-mail addresses,
the custom apps like the airline flight crew housing and city check-in
system - those have been working perfectly the whole time. The 36-bit
Systems Concepts machines in Upper Arlington, Ohio (the former
CompuServe headquarters) that kept it all going were what was shut
down last week.
-ethan