[EXTERNAL] Re: Reminiscing our first internet connections (WAS) Re: akamai yesterday - what in the world was that

Mon Feb 17 20:27:41 UTC 2020

I remember that TI luggable - that sucker weighed a ton!  I dragged it 
from the lab to my dorm a few times to log in remotely, but carrying it 
on a bicycle was a dicey deal and I got over the novelty pretty quickly. 
  I'd forgotten who made it until you mentioned it - good memories!

Gene

On 2/17/20 11:34 AM, nanog08 at mulligan.org wrote:
> Back in 1973 I was hired by Tymshare to "hack" Tymnet and some of the 
> various systems (XDS 940, PDP-10s) - I was 15.  Tymshare provided me 
> with a Teletype ASR-33 (with the built in tape punch and reader).  I had 
> an AJ 300 baud acoustic coupler.  We had a second phone line installed, 
> 'cause my dad was tired of picking up the phone and hearing tones.  I 
> ended up rewiring the house phones so I could put the terminal in my room.
> 
> When I went to the Pentagon in '79 I was in charge of PENT-TIP and got 
> to take home and travel with a TI Silent700 with a built in acoustic 
> coupler.  We had a bank of 300/1200 baud modems on PENT-TIP.  Our IMP 
> was connected to the Arpanet via a 56K modem that was the size of 5 foot 
> tall 19" rack!  Back in those days it seems TIP phone numbers were 
> closely guarded treasure.
> 
> I still remember when I got an LS ADM-3A (no more finding rolls of 
> thermal paper). I still have it, though I don't know why...
> 
> Geoff
> 
> On 2/17/20 11:20 AM, Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. wrote:
>>
>>> On Feb 17, 2020, at 10:38 AM, Gene LeDuc <gleduc at sdsu.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> I was a student worker at a computer lab at USC in the 70s and a 
>>> buddy had a system operator job at ISI in Marina Del Rey.  One day he 
>>> connected to his office from my lab via a 300baud acoustic modem and 
>>> then got on the ARPA-NET.  From there he connected to a system called 
>>> ATLAS in the UK.  I had no idea what to do at the prompt so I typed
>>>
>>>> ?
>>> to get list of commands.  My global eyes were opened when the 
>>> response was
>>>
>>> Pardon?
>>>
>>> instead of the usual rude or cryptic error message that I was used 
>>> to. There was a big world out there and we were definitely not in 
>>> Kansas anymore!
>> It was about 1980.  My C-128 came with one of those CIS snap packs to 
>> let you test connecting to the 'net via Compuserve.  So I connected 
>> with my 300baud modem and..whoa!!!
>>
>> When I got my next computer (and first portable) shortly thereafter (a 
>> TRS Model 100) I got acoustic cups for it, and suddenly I was 
>> connected from anywhere and everywhere there was a phone - including 
>> from my job at a Fotomat booth (remember those?) :-)
>>
>> Anne
>>
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>> Lincoln Law School
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>>
>>
> 

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