On 2021-08-14 9:16 a.m., Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 14 August 2021 08:44:44 tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > >> On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 07:37:00AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: >>> tomas writes: >>>> But... Usenet was /before/ 'phone, wasn't it? >>> >>> Yup. Back in the 1860s we did UUCP over manual telegraph. Earlier >>> yet we used heliograph. Signal fires on hilltops were slow, but >>> worked. And, of course, pigeons. >> >> Yes! Pigeons! UUCP over Avian Carrier. Later they shamelessly copied >> that in rfc1149 [1]. >> >> (now seriously: my first Usenet feed actually was over UUCP over... >> a 14.4k modem) >> >> Cheers >> >> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carrier >> >> - t > Chuckle, you were a bit late to that party Tomas. When I first accessed > Delphi, I used a 300 baud modem on a trs-80 color computer running os9. > That was before Judge Green, and the 16 air miles to the access point > was still long distance. So my coco ran my LD bill up over $100 some > months. Nobody had 56k modems yet. I was in hog heaven when I got my > first 1200 baud modem. > You put me back in the "good old times", long time haven't heard of Delphi. Did have a phone coupler (the thing that you put the handset over and would dial manually) for my Commodore SuperPet 900, plus the 1200 bauds modem of my Commodore 64 (later). I remember to have had a CoCo but it was running in plain Basic, don't remember which one I had. > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- Polyna-Maude R.-Summerside -Be smart, Be wise, Support opensource development
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