i can bring in my old mobile telphone system aka a vhf phone still works if ur in alberta
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Colin Stanners <[email protected]>wrote: > IIRC it was free as long as you were fine with a random username, and I > think a smaller number of dial-in hours. > > > On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Kevin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I think this would be a rather interesting talk to have, as it stays >> close to home, and gives some of us from the later generation ideas of >> how the Internet evolved in Manitoba. I recall freenet from my >> prepubescent days, and believe I used it at one point(was it really >> FREE?) >> >> On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 09:20:58 -0600 >> Colin Stanners <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Did you know that Elie, Manitoba was the first town in Canada, and >> possibly >> > one of the first in the world, to get an experimental FTTH >> voice/data/video >> > network in 1981? (As this was the early days of computing, the data was >> > actually to a Videotex / Minitel-style TV menu terminal). Ref: >> > http://predoc.org/docs/index-230523.html?page=7 >> > >> > I have always been interested in Manitoba telecom/IT history and thought >> > for the next hackathon we could have some talks in that regard, if >> anyone >> > else is interested. >> > >> > I'm inquiring with Michael Gillespie (was MB Freenet sysadmin?) and Les >> > (was big in BBSes I think) about possibilities. If anyone else has >> > suggestions please let me know. >> >> >> -- >> Kevin <[email protected]> >> _______________________________________________ >> SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List >> Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss >> Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >> > > > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >
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