Posted by Bill Vermillion on 02/04/07 12:55

In article <epvr69$56m$02$1@news.t-online.com>,
Low Life #3 <holden_mcthynge@hotmail.com> wrote:
>"SFTVratings" <SFTVratings_troy@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>news:1170413859.944019.35140@m58g2000cwm.googlegroups.com...
>
>: (2) I've been posting on Usenet since 1988 (back when computers were
>: only a few kilobytes worth of RAM). I don't need some Newbie like you
>: telling me what I can or can not do.

>got you beat by two years... 1986 email and USENET access via a dumb
>terminal connected to a DEC mainframe, back-bone site on the old ARPANET.
>UNIX system and posted using the vi text editor. Fewer wankers in those
>days.

And what was the backbone site? Seismo? So much of the stuff on
my machine came in via a uucp bang path, and here in the East
almost everything seemed to go through Seismo.

I brought up a leaf and then a node in about 1985 on a Radio Shack
model 16 with Xenix. In a year or so we had three nodes in this
area [Orlando] feeding about 100+ others. I got a backup feed from
GE in Daytona, the main site got one from [oh my gawd - my memory
is going - but it was a comptuer mfr starting with C]

And I STILL post using a vi text editor :-) And 80x24 text with
trn. [and I run my own new server on THIS machine - and I'm the
only user - but it means everything is always there - instantly.
I'm just an old fart who dislikes having to take my hands off the
keys to play with a rodent. I guess I'm an anachronism.

And a total daily feed of 6MB in 1985/6 meant that if you were an
avid reader you could read ALL the posts in the ALL the NGs.

It was really nice in those days with the ban on advertising
becuase of Arpanet and all the university sites.

And the level of posts seemed to be much higher as it took a bit of
technical knowledge to get connected - but that may be just an
impresison from a fading memory.


Bill
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Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com

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