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RE: *** ADMIN: midrange.com can DRIVE today ...


Heck, I read the list via pine on a solaris box for the longest time...

At least I didn't have to use elm... :)

DR2

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Gibbs
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 8:08 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: *** ADMIN: midrange.com can DRIVE today ...

Pete Hall wrote:
What a difference from then to today. I remember buying a login from a
company in an entirely different area of the country, which required a
long distance phone call so I could login via telnet and retrieve
messages from the list, and read them with pine.

Yep, and my connection to the net was using UUCP via a 28.8k modem.

david


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