linda.lst...@comcast.net (Linda) writes: > I had an Apple ][ with an acoustic coupler. It auto dialed over a > regular telco dial tone line using a program loaded from a cassette > player, or if one could afford it, from an early floppy drive. The > college I went to had a Univac 90/70d. The were 4 student dialup > numbers. I could get into one of those much like the scene from War > Games. It was fun.
TYMSHARE made their CMS-based online computer conferencing available free to SHARE as VMSHARE starting in Aug1976 ... archives: http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare In the 70s, I started trying to get IBM to let me put all the VMSHARE files up on internal systems ... including the world-wide sales&marketing support HONE system. One of the biggest battles I had with IBM was the lawyers were afraid that customer information would contaminate IBM employees. My brother was Apple regional marketing rep at the time (largest physical region in CONUS) and I started trying to get him to setup up an apple that would do terminal emulation for copying all the files down from TYMSHARE ... he never quite got around to doing it ... although over the years ... when he would come into town for business meetings I would get invited to dinners ... and even got to argue with the MAC developers about design (before MAC was announced). I eventually had to resort to getting montly tapes mailed from TYMSHARE ... that dumped all VMSHARE files (later added all PCSHARE files). misc. old email http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#vmshare -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
