12 Jan
2005
12 Jan
'05
3:39 a.m.
Interesting story, but I find it hard to believe that
emailing outside
of academic and military circles was done much at all back in 1985.
You obviously weren't around then, were you?
The tough part was finding shell accounts you could get. The Well was
one of the first. I know that's what I had an account on in '85. And
Apple most certainly was exchanging email. The original 'apple vax'
(apple.com later) was a 780 that lived in the top floor of Mariani 1.
I got my first job at Apple from a posting on ba.jobs that came through
that machine.