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The Telix terminal interface. I spent so, so much time on it in the 80s, discovering BBSes, other people and later exploring the worldwide X25 network. Also, from the page's source code: // UUDDLRLRBA! var kkeys = [], konami = "38,38,40,40,37,39,37,39,66,65"; :)
I am immediately reminded of "0208057040540" and "26245400080177". Those were, indeed, the days.
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I used the heck out of Minicom when I finally made Linux my "daily driver" back in the early 90s. When I finally did get dialup Internet service I ended up using "dip"[1] to script the logon to the ISP's terminal server (a Xyplex, if I remember correctly). I remember that the terminal server answered for finger and showed you the usernames of the logged-on users, their logon and idle time, and their serial port numbe…
The good old days.. I remember using dip! I helped to build a few ISPs. We used Xylogic Annex terminal servers at one place. The second ISP used USR digital modems (I forget what they were called?) By the time I set up the third one, we'd outsourced all dialup to a third party network.
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I am immediately reminded of "0208057040540" and "26245400080177". Those were, indeed, the days.
Oh, I remember QSD and Lutzifer! I was on there probably '90 to '91-ish?
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The good old days.. I remember using dip! I helped to build a few ISPs. We used Xylogic Annex terminal servers at one place. The second ISP used USR digital modems (I forget what they were called?) By the time I set up the third one, we'd outsourced all dialup to a third party network.
I knew a guy who ran a small ISP in the Dayton, OH area. He went from having banks of external modems on POTS lines connected to multi-port serial cards attached to a Windows NT Server 3.51 machine to an Ascend router with a PRI and "digital modems" (CODECs in DSPs, no doubt) to finally using an outsourced dial provider, all in the space of about 18 - 24 months. I wish I'd been a little older and a little more busine…
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The Telix terminal interface. I spent so, so much time on it in the 80s, discovering BBSes, other people and later exploring the worldwide X25 network. Also, from the page's source code: // UUDDLRLRBA! var kkeys = [], konami = "38,38,40,40,37,39,37,39,66,65"; :)
I am immediately reminded of "0208057040540" and "26245400080177". Those were, indeed, the days.
and I recognized QSD immediately when I saw it in your post.
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In some regions, the option key on Mac keyboards is labeled as "alt". E.g. https://www.macworld.co.uk/cmsdata/features/3504584/Mac-Keyb...
If you press Alt+Z on the Mac, you get this: Ω. Fn doesn't override it either.
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Oh, I remember QSD and Lutzifer! I was on there probably '90 to '91-ish?
Same time frame for me. I'd heard of the Internet (by way of "The Cuckoo's Egg" and coverage of the Morris worm) but being out in the boondocks with no college close by there wasn't any chance of getting Internet access at that time. The X.25 networks, and just the idea of always-on networked computers, were breathtaking to me.
I found my way into some x.25-to-internet gateways in the early 90's. Most corporate networks were very insecure then. Some of those gateways had no authentication: you'd connect in over x25, then telnet out. The local colleges were also pretty bad.
atdt8675309 OK In the 90s, my modem terminal of choice was Terminate. It's still available! http://www.terminate.com
ATDP8675,309
(by the way, "," works on iphones)
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I used the heck out of Minicom when I finally made Linux my "daily driver" back in the early 90s. When I finally did get dialup Internet service I ended up using "dip"[1] to script the logon to the ISP's terminal server (a Xyplex, if I remember correctly). I remember that the terminal server answered for finger and showed you the usernames of the logged-on users, their logon and idle time, and their serial port numbe…
The good old days.. I remember using dip! I helped to build a few ISPs. We used Xylogic Annex terminal servers at one place. The second ISP used USR digital modems (I forget what they were called?) By the time I set up the third one, we'd outsourced all dialup to a third party network.