On Tuesday, September 15, 2015 at 6:36:00 PM UTC-5, taxed and spent wrote:
"Steve Stone" wrote in message
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On 9/15/2015 3:20 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 15 Sep 2015 13:47:08 -0400, Steve Stone
wrote:


I remember E-mail long before the internet was available to the
masses. Services like Compuserve were out there when PCs in the home
were still fairly rare. By the time the IBM PC started rolling out in
any real quantity we had Prodigy and later AOL. They were fairly
mature services by the time the internet was added.

Internally many companies had E-mail under different names and there
was usually a dial up portal into the network.


I was a Fidonet SysOp for a few years, running RBBS-PC on an 8088 based
IBM PC with over 500 users.

Prodigy was originally called Trintex, a joint venture between three
companies.
It was the first online service I had seen with ads running on the bottom
of the screen.

I go back a ways in telecommunications. My first "IT" job was stripping
down Teletype machines for rebuilding at a Western Union shop in Mahwah ,
NJ


I had my own teletype machines when I was a kid. Cool gear!

Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't there an interface to connect a teletype machine to an early IBM PC? I could swear I saw something like it in one of the electronics magazines back in the 80's. o_O

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