Any former �CompuServers� around?

expertc · 01-03-2010, 09:30:56 PM

Music post by FagEnd put me into nostalgic mood.

Many years ago, last millennium to be precise, I put up my first website on the ourworld. And I was CompuSeve member for many years.

Still remember my ID 101513,1555.

I wonder how many CompuSevers are around this forum. Anyone remembers his/her CS ID?

JMOT · 01-03-2010, 09:37:38 PM

Cant remember the ID but I remember surfing porn for the first time using them when I was about 13 and HOW LONG it took a page to download

stevebrowne · 01-03-2010, 09:40:14 PM

yup, can't remember my ID though. Used to work for them in Reading as well, back in the day.

monaghan · 02-03-2010, 12:02:10 AM

That's going back a while! The company I was working for paid my membership until we had full Internet access through the firewall (well full Internet access in those days was a shell account on the box in what we now call a DMZ, file transfers were a 2 stage ftp down to the SUN and then ftp to my desktop PC)

packeted · 02-03-2010, 12:14:31 AM

Anyone use BBC Networking Club?

monaghan · 02-03-2010, 12:19:48 AM

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Originally Posted by packeted

Anyone use BBC Networking Club?

No, but I did help run the Amstrad BBS for about a year back in the days when 1200baud was fast and the 2400baud modems we had on the BBS were out of this world

expertc · 02-03-2010, 12:31:16 AM

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Originally Posted by monaghan

No, but I did help run the Amstrad BBS for about a year back in the days when 1200baud was fast and the 2400baud modems we had on the BBS were out of this world

He-he� memory lane, huh? Well in 1991 my boss issued me with portable (!!!) battery operated 2400 modem. I�ve configured a mini-computer running PICK (I wonder if anyone now knows what PICK is

) with 16-port Monolith card to run as in-office modem pool. Remote clients were running VT100 terminal emulation in DOS.

crabfoot · 02-03-2010, 02:57:36 AM

I had a compuserve account 20 years ago, then I got mugged by one of those "upgrade your compuserve software" disks - it put me on to UK Compuserve, and I was double billed from UK and US for 8 months before I noticed I was paying in two places.

Then I killed the US account. Soon after the UK arm was wound up, and I ended up with AOL.

Those were the days when you could find useful info on the www...

monaghan · 02-03-2010, 07:29:16 AM

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Originally Posted by expertc

I wonder if anyone now knows what PICK is

Isn't it a multi user database based OS? I've never actually used it myself, have always been a VAX / PDP11 / UNIX guy

newguy · 02-03-2010, 07:39:12 AM

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Originally Posted by JMOT

Cant remember the ID but I remember surfing porn for the first time using them when I was about 13 and HOW LONG it took a page to download

Hah, I remember those days!

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crabfoot Join Date: Jan 2009 Posts: 821 No Classified Ratings Domain Trader Rating: (100% / 1)	I had a compuserve account 20 years ago, then I got mugged by one of those "upgrade your compuserve software" disks - it put me on to UK Compuserve, and I was double billed from UK and US for 8 months before I noticed I was paying in two places. Then I killed the US account. Soon after the UK arm was wound up, and I ended up with AOL. Those were the days when you could find useful info on the www... __________________ Cloud Factories ppi-info

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JMOT Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 876 Classified Rating: 100% (1) Domain Trader Rating: (100% / 15)	Cant remember the ID but I remember surfing porn for the first time using them when I was about 13 and HOW LONG it took a page to download

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packeted Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 128 No Classified Ratings Domain Trader Rating: (100% / 3)	Anyone use BBC Networking Club?