Compuserve wayback machine

On 1/10/07, Jim Leonard <trixter at oldskool.org> wrote: I would be surprised to hear that anyone runs across any content - I went looking for it with my work PPN in 2000 and couldn't find diddly-squat. I was told that all the "old stuff" had been taken off some time before. My heyday with the service was in the 1982-1985 timeframe, with a C-64 and VIC MODEM (300 baud, handset attachment (manual dial, move the cord when the host answers)) and a "terminal program" I wrote in BASIC. We also had a CompuServe node behind glass at the science museum I volunteered around the same time - a DECsystem 2020 (KS-10?) with a few C-64 terminals out on the museum floor piped into "the service". The content from that era (GO GAMES, GO TRAVEL...) was nowhere to be found in 2000. I didn't use the file archives until I was a consultant at CompuServe in 1994-1995 writing tax software for H&R Block (the owners of CompuServe at the time), but that was an entirely different era (DEC PDP-10s going away, "32 bit hosts" (Intel boxes running UNIX) coming online, SC-25s and SC-30s starting to come in to replace DEC 36-bit hosts...) In its time, it was a fun place to work. One of those situations they really _were_ the "good old days". -ethan