First personal computer nostalgia

From: Bill Pechter <pechter_at_pechter.dyndns.org>
Date: Thu Nov 16 11:05:36 2000

> At 08:30 AM 11/16/00 -0800, Ethan Dicks wrote:
> >1986, I put up UUCP on an 11/730 at work and discover Usenet.
> >1987, I run UUCP on the Amiga 1000 at home
>
> 'uucp' on an Amiga in 1987? Really?
>
> - John
>

Sure... It existed under DOS at least that far back...
Too bad there aren't cheap uucp mail/news connections available.

I was lakewood.com for a while using a UUCP over TCP/IP link
from a friend who held my MX record.


Bill

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