IBM mainframe goes for 99 cents

From: Tom Jennings <tomj_at_wps.com>
Date: Thu Feb 24 20:23:35 2005

>> grammatically close. I had an account on it for about 11 minutes
>> in the early 1980's.

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> 11 minutes?

Seems like, anyways. I no longer even remember *why* I had it...
we were MSDOS OEM installers, and used to work with Chris Larson
(I think it was) at M$. I think it was for email or some such, or
maybe downloading somethingorother. I barely remember it, mostly
the name. Use involved dialing into a modem pool, some treacherous
login system, etc.

Anything that long ago seems like it lasted only 11 minutes. Rear
view mirror effect.
Received on Thu Feb 24 2005 - 20:23:35 GMT