Re: AOL BRowser question

2011-07-21 Thread Steve Ens
F5? On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:51 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.comwrote: On of my remote users uses AOL for his internet provider (yeah, I know... who still uses AOL???) and he's complaining that his view of the intranet page isn't showing up properly -- stuff is missing, or old

RE: AOL BRowser question

2011-07-21 Thread Carl Houseman
User has a Dr. Dr. it hurts when I do this problem. Stop doing that. Even if the user is actually using AOL as an ISP (seems unlikely), there is no requirement to use the AOL-provided software for surfing the net. The user should be using a current/modern browser. Carl -Original

Re: AOL BRowser question

2011-07-21 Thread Roger Wright
Unfortunately, my mother continues to use AOL. I can't get her to drop it and use IE. To her, AOL _IS_ the Internet. To add insult to injury, she continues to PAY for it even though it's free! Agonizing Roger Wright ___ Dr. Seuss is my favorite rapper! Cat - Hat... sheer genius! On

Re: AOL BRowser question

2011-07-21 Thread Daniel Rodriguez
minimize that aol screen and have him use ie. dont use the aol browser, that was a subset of ie. drod...@gmail.com Sent via Dell Streak 7 On Jul 21, 2011 3:52 PM, John Aldrich jaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: On of my remote users uses AOL for his internet provider (yeah, I know... who still

Re: AOL BRowser question

2011-07-21 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Roger Wright rhw...@gmail.com wrote: Unfortunately, my mother continues to use AOL.  I can't get her to drop it and use IE.  To her, AOL _IS_ the Internet. To add insult to injury, she continues to PAY for it even though it's free! Does she still rent her

Re: AOL BRowser question

2011-07-21 Thread Daniel Rodriguez
probably has one of the older type phones that were hand cranked. :-) drod...@gmail.com Sent via Dell Streak 7 On Jul 21, 2011 10:46 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Roger Wright rhw...@gmail.com wrote: Unfortunately, my mother continues to use AOL. I

Re: AOL BRowser question

2011-07-21 Thread Roger Wright
Nope - she's progressed a bit. Even has basic cable (12 channels) now. Roger Wright ___ Dr. Seuss is my favorite rapper! Cat - Hat... sheer genius! On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 10:45 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Roger Wright rhw...@gmail.com

Re: AOL BRowser question

2011-07-21 Thread Daniel Rodriguez
cable box the old slide selector type? drod...@gmail.com Sent via Dell Streak 7 On Jul 21, 2011 11:00 PM, Roger Wright rhw...@gmail.com wrote: Nope - she's progressed a bit. Even has basic cable (12 channels) now. Roger Wright ___ Dr. Seuss is my favorite rapper! Cat - Hat... sheer genius!

Re: AOL

2009-08-10 Thread Len Hammond
[mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] *Sent:* Friday, August 07, 2009 11:59 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: AOL m...@d himem sk1llz? -sc *From:* Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, August 07, 2009 11:55 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: AOL

RE: AOL

2009-08-10 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Nice So you went from one version of Cutler's VMS to the next version of Mica^H^H^H^H VMS ;-) -sc From: Len Hammond [mailto:lenhammo...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 10:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: AOL My first computer gig in '95 we were running

Re: AOL

2009-08-10 Thread Andrew S. Baker
*To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: AOL m...@d himem sk1llz? -sc *From:* Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, August 07, 2009 11:55 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: AOL sure, specific questions or just a flashback ? g Wasn't

RE: AOL

2009-08-10 Thread Eldridge, Dave
+1 It would squeeze an additional 30-40 bytes of memory. Certain games would need that extra. 30-40 bytes are you kidding me? J From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 9:40 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: AOL QEMM was cool

Re: AOL

2009-08-10 Thread Jonathan Link
...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Monday, August 10, 2009 9:40 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* Re: AOL QEMM was cool, but there were two other competitors: 1 that I forget, and another that became my favorite: Helix NetRoom... -ASB On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Len Hammond

Re: AOL

2009-08-10 Thread Ben Scott
On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Andrew S. Bakerasbz...@gmail.com wrote: QEMM was cool, but there were two other competitors: 1 that I forget, and another that became my favorite:  Helix NetRoom... You might be thinking of 386MAX. Of the two, I liked QEMM better. I never used Helix. Ah,

Re: AOL

2009-08-10 Thread Len Hammond
I had a whole building full of co-ax. With no way to test any of it when I got started, I ended up with a leg over 800feet in length. It was flakey to say the least. Once I got a tester and found the length and shortened it it became much more reliable. Most of my users were so afraid of the

RE: AOL

2009-08-10 Thread Webb, Brian (Corp)
reasonable numbers of machines on each run. -Brian From: Len Hammond [mailto:lenhammo...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 2:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: AOL I had a whole building full of co-ax. With no way to test any of it when I got

RE: AOL

2009-08-10 Thread Erik Goldoff
What ever happened to the 5-4-3 rule grin Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security _ From: Webb, Brian (Corp) [mailto:brian.w...@teldta.com] Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 4:30 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: AOL I inherited a network many years ago

Re: AOL

2009-08-10 Thread David W. McSpadden
, August 10, 2009 4:53 PM Subject: RE: AOL What ever happened to the 5-4-3 rule grin Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security -- From: Webb, Brian (Corp) [mailto:brian.w...@teldta.com

RE: AOL

2009-08-10 Thread Webb, Brian (Corp)
From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 3:54 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: AOL What ever happened to the 5-4-3 rule grin Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security From: Webb

Re: AOL

2009-08-10 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Ah, yes. 386Max Yeah, I liked QEMM better, and Helix NetRoom even better. -ASB On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Andrew S. Bakerasbz...@gmail.com wrote: QEMM was cool, but there were two other competitors: 1

RE: AOL

2009-08-09 Thread Gene Giannamore
...@abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 1:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: AOL On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Free, Bobr...@pge.com wrote: Bingo. Most of the 5250 cards had TwinAx connections so the cabling

RE: AOL

2009-08-09 Thread Gene Giannamore
gene.giannam...@abideinternational.com -Original Message- From: Peter van Houten [mailto:peter...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 2:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: AOL Groan. One word. Arcnet. At one stage, we started putting a bead of solder between the T-piece

RE: AOL

2009-08-08 Thread Glen Johnson
:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: AOL Groan. One word. Arcnet. At one stage, we started putting a bead of solder between the T-piece and the male connector so that they could only remove the T from the NIC. -- Peter van Houten On the 07/08/2009 22:40, Ben Scott wrote the following

RE: AOL

2009-08-07 Thread Don Guyer
System Admin Issues Subject: RE: AOL Yep sounds right. In my experience when I used to actually try to support AOL clients I found its software seemed to bind with the NIC drivers (or the TCP/IP stack, I forget which) in an unusual way. IIRC it made me think it acted like a special AOL loopback

Re: AOL

2009-08-07 Thread Jon Harris
@nwea.org] *Sent:* Thursday, August 06, 2009 5:34 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: AOL Yep sounds right. In my experience when I used to actually try to support AOL clients I found its software seemed to bind with the NIC drivers (or the TCP/IP stack, I forget which

Re: AOL

2009-08-07 Thread Andrew S. Baker
. About as badly as the original NetWare client for Win95 did… -sc *From:* David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] *Sent:* Thursday, August 06, 2009 5:34 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: AOL Yep sounds right. In my experience when I used to actually try to support AOL

Re: AOL

2009-08-07 Thread Charles Whitby
:* RE: AOL Yep sounds right. In my experience when I used to actually try to support AOL clients I found its software seemed to bind with the NIC drivers (or the TCP/IP stack, I forget which) in an unusual way. IIRC it made me think it acted like a “special AOL loopback adapter that allows

Re: AOL

2009-08-07 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Andrew S. Bakerasbz...@gmail.com wrote: Who remembers the original TCP/IP stack you could install on a Windows 3.0 system to get onto the Internet?  :) Trumpet Winsock! -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~

Re: AOL

2009-08-07 Thread Jon Harris
[mailto:david@nwea.org] *Sent:* Thursday, August 06, 2009 5:34 PM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: AOL Yep sounds right. In my experience when I used to actually try to support AOL clients I found its software seemed to bind with the NIC drivers (or the TCP/IP stack, I forget which

Re: AOL

2009-08-07 Thread Jon Harris
That was what I remembered. I preferred WFW better. Jon On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Andrew S. Bakerasbz...@gmail.com wrote: Who remembers the original TCP/IP stack you could install on a Windows 3.0 system to get

RE: AOL

2009-08-07 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Trumpet! Altho I just used WfW. -sc From: Charles Whitby [mailto:charles.whi...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 11:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: AOL LAN Workplace? On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: Who remembers

RE: AOL

2009-08-07 Thread Erik Goldoff
Systems, Networks, Security _ From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 11:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: AOL Who remembers the original TCP/IP stack you could install on a Windows 3.0 system to get onto the Internet? :) -ASB

RE: AOL

2009-08-07 Thread Steven M. Caesare
m...@d himem sk1llz? -sc From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 11:55 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: AOL sure, specific questions or just a flashback ? g Wasn't there a stack with a lizard type logo ? we had Windows 3.0 running

RE: AOL

2009-08-07 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Oh,and are you thinking of Chamelon? -sc From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 11:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: AOL m...@d himem sk1llz? -sc From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 07

RE: AOL

2009-08-07 Thread Phillip Partipilo
, 2009 11:50 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: AOL Trumpet! Altho I just used WfW. -sc From: Charles Whitby [mailto:charles.whi...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 11:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: AOL LAN Workplace? On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:43

RE: AOL

2009-08-07 Thread Phillip Partipilo
Anyone cool was using QEMM and Desqview/386! Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 _ From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 11:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: AOL m...@d himem

RE: AOL

2009-08-07 Thread Steven M. Caesare
QEMM: yes. DesqVIEW: meh. HP NewWave! -sc From: Phillip Partipilo [mailto:p...@psnet.com] Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 12:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: AOL Anyone cool was using QEMM and Desqview/386! Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc

RE: AOL

2009-08-07 Thread Erik Goldoff
Issues Subject: RE: AOL Anyone cool was using QEMM and Desqview/386! Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 _ From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 11:59 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE

Re: AOL

2009-08-07 Thread Devin Meade
*To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: AOL Anyone cool was using QEMM and Desqview/386! Phillip Partipilo Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 -- *From:* Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] *Sent:* Friday, August 07, 2009

RE: AOL

2009-08-07 Thread Phillip Partipilo
To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: AOL QEMM: yes. DesqVIEW: meh. HP NewWave! -sc From: Phillip Partipilo [mailto:p...@psnet.com] Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 12:09 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: AOL Anyone cool was using QEMM and Desqview/386! Phillip

Re: AOL

2009-08-07 Thread Micheal Espinola Jr
Parametric Solutions Inc. Jupiter, Florida (561) 747-6107 From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 12:16 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: AOL QEMM: yes. DesqVIEW: meh. HP NewWave! -sc From

RE: AOL

2009-08-07 Thread Free, Bob
: AOL Trumpet! Altho I just used WfW. -sc From: Charles Whitby [mailto:charles.whi...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 11:45 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: AOL LAN Workplace? On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Andrew S. Baker asbz...@gmail.com wrote: Who

RE: AOL

2009-08-07 Thread Free, Bob
Admin Issues Subject: RE: AOL sure, specific questions or just a flashback ? g Wasn't there a stack with a lizard type logo ? we had Windows 3.0 running with the NetWare stack *and* the TCP/IP stack ... back when upper memory management was a valued skill g, uphill, in the snow, both ways

Re: AOL

2009-08-07 Thread Jon Harris
manager..bleech *From:* Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] *Sent:* Friday, August 07, 2009 8:55 AM *To:* NT System Admin Issues *Subject:* RE: AOL sure, specific questions or just a flashback ? g Wasn't there a stack with a lizard type logo ? we had Windows 3.0 running

RE: AOL

2009-08-07 Thread Erik Goldoff
IT Consultant Systems, Networks, Security _ From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 1:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: AOL Worst job I ever had back then was to try to get boxes with 2 NICs (Vines Netware) and a 5250 emulation card

RE: AOL

2009-08-07 Thread Free, Bob
as long as it wasn't on an IBM. From: Jon Harris [mailto:jk.har...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 10:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: AOL You could do that? I thought that was impossible. Jon On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Free, Bob r...@pge.com wrote: Worst

RE: AOL

2009-08-07 Thread Free, Bob
What would he do if you gave him an EISA card? -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 11:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: AOL On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Erik Goldoffegold...@gmail.com wrote: ... my job

RE: AOL

2009-08-07 Thread Damien Solodow
] Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 2:21 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: AOL What would he do if you gave him an EISA card? -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 11:00 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: AOL On Fri, Aug 7

Re: AOL

2009-08-07 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 7 Aug 2009 at 11:43, Andrew S. Baker wrote: Who remembers the original TCP/IP stack you could install on a Windows 3.0 system to get onto the Internet? :) I do, unfortunately. Trumpet Winsock, ISTR using that one ... -- Angus Scott-Fleming GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona 1-520-290-5038

Re: AOL

2009-08-07 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 7 Aug 2009 at 12:08, Phillip Partipilo wrote: Anyone cool was using QEMM and Desqview/386! I once bought a used HDD at a local swipe-meet and to my surprise it had QEMM and DV loaded on it, registered to another local consultant whom I knew. Gave him a hard time about not wiping the disk

RE: AOL

2009-08-07 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Kinda like our PC's with TwinAx and AppleTalk cards. Ick. -sc From: Free, Bob [mailto:r...@pge.com] Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 1:26 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: AOL Worst job I ever had back then was to try to get boxes with 2 NICs (Vines Netware) and a 5250

RE: AOL

2009-08-07 Thread Free, Bob
Bingo. Most of the 5250 cards had TwinAx connections so the cabling/terminations were one more variable in getting to damn things to work. From: Steven M. Caesare [mailto:scaes...@caesare.com] Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 12:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: AOL Kinda like

Re: AOL

2009-08-07 Thread Andrew S. Baker
I *knew* saving that board for 20 years would come in handy eventually! ;-) Yeah, well my wife never agrees with me on that... :) -ASB On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Ben Scott mailvor...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Erik Goldoffegold...@gmail.com wrote: ... my job

Re: AOL

2009-08-07 Thread Andrew S. Baker
Yep... Good ol' trumpet. -ASB On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Angus Scott-Fleming angu...@geoapps.comwrote: On 7 Aug 2009 at 11:43, Andrew S. Baker wrote: Who remembers the original TCP/IP stack you could install on a Windows 3.0 system to get onto the Internet? :) I do,

Re: AOL

2009-08-07 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Free, Bobr...@pge.com wrote: Bingo. Most of the 5250 cards had TwinAx connections so the cabling/terminations were one more variable in getting to damn things to work. How about BNC 10BASE2? Nothing like having the entire LAN go down because some luser

Re: AOL

2009-08-07 Thread Kurt Buff
To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: AOL Yep sounds right. In my experience when I used to actually try to support AOL clients I found its software seemed to bind with the NIC drivers (or the TCP/IP stack, I forget which) in an unusual way. IIRC it made me think it acted like a “special

Re: AOL

2009-08-07 Thread Peter van Houten
Groan. One word. Arcnet. At one stage, we started putting a bead of solder between the T-piece and the male connector so that they could only remove the T from the NIC. -- Peter van Houten On the 07/08/2009 22:40, Ben Scott wrote the following: On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Free,

RE: AOL

2009-08-07 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Thinnet FTL. Where'd the terminator go?? -sc -Original Message- From: Ben Scott [mailto:mailvor...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 4:41 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: AOL On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Free, Bobr...@pge.com wrote: Bingo. Most of the 5250 cards

RE: AOL

2009-08-07 Thread Erik Goldoff
07, 2009 2:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: AOL On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Erik Goldoffegold...@gmail.com wrote: ... my job was to install the IBM ISA Token Ring Adapters so that all three would behave together Hah! I *just today* brought in an old VGA card with 8-bit ISA

RE: AOL

2009-08-07 Thread Gene Giannamore
: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:asbz...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 8:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: AOL Who remembers the original TCP/IP stack you could install on a Windows 3.0 system to get onto the Internet? :) -ASB --- http://Home.ASBzone.com/ASB/ http

RE: AOL

2009-08-07 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Still got a bunch dunno why really. -sc -Original Message- From: Erik Goldoff [mailto:egold...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 7:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: AOL Think I finally threw out all my old ISA cards a month or two ago ... And yep, had some

Re: AOL

2009-08-07 Thread Jon Harris
...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 7:55 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: AOL Think I finally threw out all my old ISA cards a month or two ago ... And yep, had some video, ethernet, token ring, sound blaster, etc... Erik Goldoff IT Consultant Systems, Networks

RE: AOL

2009-08-07 Thread Jim Majorowicz
Heh. I remember having to solder 72 Ohm resistors into terminators and then having to test them. -Original Message- From: Peter van Houten [mailto:peter...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 2:24 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: AOL Groan. One word. Arcnet. At one

RE: AOL

2009-08-06 Thread John Aldrich
didn't have the heart to rebuild it. L John-AldrichTile-Tools From: Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com] Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 12:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: AOL On 5 Aug 2009 at 22:49, Sean Houston wrote: I remember Compuserve, Prodigy and AOL

RE: AOL

2009-08-06 Thread Erik Goldoff
...@blueridgecarpet.com] Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 9:12 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: AOL Yeah, I remember the good old days of Fight-O-Net J I was 1:362/669. I couldn't get the neighbor of the beast so I at least got the 'down the street from the beast' node address. J

Re: AOL

2009-08-06 Thread Michael . Leone
Angus Scott-Fleming angu...@geoapps.com wrote on 08/06/2009 12:10:36 AM: On 5 Aug 2009 at 22:49, Sean Houston wrote: I remember Compuserve, Prodigy and AOL being the main 3 companies around. I can't say I was ever aware they were ever known as anything but AOHell. Fidonet all the

Re: AOL

2009-08-06 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 9:12 AM, John Aldrichjaldr...@blueridgecarpet.com wrote: I was 1:362/669. I used to co-sysop for Computer Castle 1:324/127. RemoteAccess/Pro. 20 lines, each with a dedicated clunker PC, all booting from floppy and then running diskless against a NetWare server. Said

RE: AOL

2009-08-06 Thread David Lum
[mailto:angu...@geoapps.com] Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 12:11 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: AOL On 5 Aug 2009 at 22:49, Sean Houston wrote: I remember Compuserve, Prodigy and AOL being the main 3 companies around. I can't say I was ever aware they were ever known as anything but AOHell

RE: AOL

2009-08-06 Thread paul chinnery
it. Finally, I told her I'd put it in her Favorites folder. From: david@nwea.org To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 10:07:53 -0700 Subject: RE: AOL When I get asked to work on a home user PC with AOL I let them know up front *I DO NOT SUPPORT AOL

RE: AOL

2009-08-06 Thread David Lum
: RE: AOL I had to visit a doctor's office (office would dial in remotely to the hospital) because she said the link (url) to our RAS wasn't working. Got there and she's running AOL (and she has broadband, too). Every freakin' time I tried to put a shortcut on her desktop to the RAS, AOL would

RE: AOL

2009-08-06 Thread Steven M. Caesare
Ayup. About as badly as the original NetWare client for Win95 did... -sc From: David Lum [mailto:david@nwea.org] Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 5:34 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: AOL Yep sounds right. In my experience when I used to actually try to support AOL

Re: AOL

2009-08-05 Thread Angus Scott-Fleming
On 5 Aug 2009 at 22:49, Sean Houston wrote: I remember Compuserve, Prodigy and AOL being the main 3 companies around. I can't say I was ever aware they were ever known as anything but AOHell. Fidonet all the way, baby I ran a BBS for many years. I think I still have the 386 it was