On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:40:02 +0100, "12 WPM Class A"
<invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:

>In 1994, very few of us had Internet access at all, and with PoPs being
>on a costly trunk call with 9600 modems you did not browse online
>but used the KA9Q stack to download SMTP and NNTP traffic
>to browse offline.

Happy days!  I remember it well.

Do you also remember Prestel (1200/75 bps) and 300 bps dial-up BBSs?

Not to mention playing on-line games via the JANET network.  (Hosted
at a university in Essex, I seem to recall.)
;-)

73 de G3NYY

-- 
Walt Davidson                               Email: g3nyy @despammed.com

"Walt Davidson"  wrote in message 
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> Do you also remember Prestel (1200/75 bps) and 300 bps dial-up BBSs?

I remember the Post Office B2 300 Baud modem which was all that was
available (and permitted for connection to the network) in 1980.

I've got a 300 Bauder somewhere in the junk box where you put your
handset into a couple of rubber cups so as not to effect an electrical
connection to the network.

"Walt Davidson"  wrote in message 
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> On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:40:02 +0100, "12 WPM Class A"
> <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
>>In 1994, very few of us had Internet access at all, and with PoPs being
>>on a costly trunk call with 9600 modems you did not browse online
>>but used the KA9Q stack to download SMTP and NNTP traffic
>>to browse offline.
>
> Happy days!  I remember it well.
>
> Do you also remember Prestel (1200/75 bps) and 300 bps dial-up BBSs?
>
> Not to mention playing on-line games via the JANET network.  (Hosted
> at a university in Essex, I seem to recall.)
> ;-)
> 73 de G3NYY
> Walt Davidson
>
>
I had a Commodore C64 with a dual standard  Prestel and Compunet modem

and a C1541, 5 1/4in floppy disk drive, with serial bus, making it the 
slowest drive ever

Luxury!

Steve Terry

On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:07:59 +0100, Walt Davidson
 wrote:

>Do you also remember Prestel (1200/75 bps) and 300 bps dial-up BBSs?

Indeed.  I even remember the fuss when 'Phil the Greek' had his
Prestel mailbox cracked by a couple of part-time computer journo's :-)

Nick.

On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:14:37 +0100, "12 WPM Class A"
<invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:


>I remember the Post Office B2 300 Baud modem which was all that was
>available (and permitted for connection to the network) in 1980.
>
>I've got a 300 Bauder somewhere in the junk box where you put your
>handset into a couple of rubber cups so as not to effect an electrical
>connection to the network.

I remember an Epson portable computer, which had acoustic couplers for
a standard GPO handset, built-in.  (1979-ish)

ISTR the computer's display was something like 6 twenty character
lines...  Probably made the 300bd look fast.  :-)

Nick.

On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:04:05 +0100, lucifer@eternal-flames.gov
wrote:

>Indeed.  I even remember the fuss when 'Phil the Greek' had his
>Prestel mailbox cracked by a couple of part-time computer journo's :-)

They are now highly-paid and successful computer security consultants.
:-)

73 de G3NYY

-- 
Walt Davidson                               Email: g3nyy @despammed.com

>>Indeed.  I even remember the fuss when 'Phil the Greek' had his
>>Prestel mailbox cracked by a couple of part-time computer journo's :-)
>
> They are now highly-paid and successful computer security consultants.
> :-)

in the same way pirates are now hammy mens ..........

On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:45:49 +0100, Walt Davidson
 wrote:


>They are now highly-paid and successful computer security consultants.
>:-)
>
>73 de G3NYY

Yes.  I saw one of the guys - Steve Gold - on a C4 programme a while
back, about computer hacking.

Poacher turned gamekeeper.  ;-)

Nick

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> On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:45:49 +0100, Walt Davidson
>  wrote:
>>They are now highly-paid and successful computer security consultants.
> Yes.  I saw one of the guys - Steve Gold - on a C4 programme a while
> back, about computer hacking.
> Poacher turned gamekeeper.  ;-)

Like M3OSN with his illegal installation of a 19 set?

Jimbo ...Every Silver Lining Has A Cloud wrote:
>>> Indeed.  I even remember the fuss when 'Phil the Greek' had his
>>> Prestel mailbox cracked by a couple of part-time computer journo's :-)
>> They are now highly-paid and successful computer security consultants.
>> :-)
> 
> in the same way pirates are now hammy mens .......... 

When you're right, you're right!