<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">First non-POTS was an Ascend Pipeline 50. I may even still have it somewhere.<div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 17, 2020, at 12:07 PM, Brian <<a href="mailto:brian@nc-ct.net" class="">brian@nc-ct.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Feb 17, 2020, at 10:38 AM, Gene LeDuc <<a href="mailto:gleduc@sdsu.edu" class="">gleduc@sdsu.edu</a>> wrote:<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Does this thread make me not only think about the days of old, but also<br class="">makes me feel older! Not going back as far as some here but around<br class="">1993ish...<br class=""><br class="">My first connection back in the day was a shell account I was given as<br class="">consultant and reseller for what was TIAC (then became PSI). I was also<br class="">at the time running a 6 line MajorBBS system (prior to WorldGroup). TIAC<br class="">allowed multiple concurrent logins to the shell so I purchased the<br class="">MajorBBS dialout module and had it login to my shell account which my<br class="">cosysop crafted a nice menu for basic feature usage such as<br class="">ftp/lynx/irc/etc. Users could then use my dialout feature into my shell<br class="">and do what they were looking to do. <br class=""><br class="">Being somewhat out in the sticks and having a decent dial area coverage<br class="">it in a sense allowed me to become my local region's first ISP of sorts.<br class="">It was a hack but it worked and users were more than happy since for<br class="">many even dialing up to AOL or Compuserve was a toll call then.<br class=""><br class="">-- <br class="">If Confucius were alive today:<br class="">"A computing device left in the OFF power state never crashes" <br class="">-----<br class="">73 de Brian N1URO<br class="">IPv6 Certified<br class="">SMTP: <a href="http://n1uro-at-n1uro.ampr.org" class="">n1uro-at-n1uro.ampr.org</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>