[Novalug] Reminiscing about times I was too young to remember!
ethan@757.org
ethan@757.org
Fri Oct 4 12:41:58 EDT 2013
> Back in those halcyon days, I was a Telenet subscriber.
I used to run a BBS in Norfolk Virginia and I remember seeing a call come
in (late in the BBS game) at 2400 baud or something. I watched and noticed
that the actions were laggy. I broke into chat and chatted with the
caller, and sure enough he was coming through a telenet or tymnet outdial.
It was pretty impressive, at that point in time that was something of old
school.
I remember guessing around at addresses on Telenet but don't ever recall
using outdials or dialouts or whatever the slang was for a modem connected
to the system.
I remember you could randomly log into bank mainframes with default OS/390
passwords though.
- Ethan
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