Dialcom, Telenet and The Source was Re: restoring a Silent 700 Model 765

[Chris Zach]

Wow.

Thanks for an excellent trip down memory lane. One oddity, I think I was 
dialing into TYMNET as when I would call in it would say.

PLEASE TYPE YOUR TERMINAL IDENTIFIER
You would type "A" for ASCII. This would print very slowly, character by 
character at about 110 baud. I think it was for either ASCII or EBCDIC.

Then you would get
PLEASE LOG IN

And I'd type something.

Then it would say:
P400 is online
Please sign on.

At which point you would type ID and your source username and password.

Great for playing Star Trek if I recall. The version I remember would 
actually have the Klingon attack you even while you were typing, IE it 
was not a turn by turn game. Fun....

CZ

On 4/10/2022 7:31 PM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk wrote:
>>>> 301 24 CONNECTED
>>>> DIALCOM NETWORK SYSTEM 10
>>>>
>>> Please do scan these! It is hard as hell getting info on The Source
>>> and also on Dialcom!
>>
>> Yes, I definitely plan to transcribe them. There is potentially some
>> copyrighted material here but I think I can just excerpt that and still include
>> all the rest of the login process, etc.
>>
>> Still, would be nice to get the terminal itself working and see what's in the
>> ASR's bubble memory, assuming that's still operational, so any ideas people
>> have would be appreciated.
>>
> 
> I've now transcribed the teletype transcripts and included some scans from the
> manual, including a nice picture from InfoWorld in 1984 of the Prime hardware.
> 
> https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2022/04/tonight-were-gonna-log-on-like-its-1979.html
>