[Info-vax] BITNET, was: Re: login information capture

[Forster, Michael]

Do I misrecall sethink similar in my Arpanet days? Or was that actually Arpanet to Bitnet? Baud rate was more like 1200 to 2400 on high speed. Acoustic coupling of course. Mine started in PDP 11 days. 

Hi Brian!

Michael
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In article <leget7$3tk$1 at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm <jan-erik.soderholm at telia.com> writes:
>Hunter Goatley wrote 2014-02-24 22:40:
>> My first 'net connection was via BITNET when I was at WKU. The first
>> version of my VMS Freeware Archive was a mail-based file server running
>> over BITNET (and gatewayed to the Internet). About a year after we got
>> online via BITNET (over a 9600-baud modem, no less!), we finally got a real
>> T1 connection to the state backbone....
>>
>> Hunter
>
>I was a "user" to that file server for many years.
>Realy clever where the mails was COM files with inline TPU
>scripts to rebuild the original file, if I'm not wrong (?).
>Just extract the parts from MAIL> and run with @.
>I think that there was a separate tool to do the
>extract and combine into one large file.
>
>(I may be mixing this up with some similar concept...)

You're not mixed up... them were the good ol' days.

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