The name was ALMAC (very original Alistair Mc ran it) - bought over by Scotland on line in turn absorbed into THUS.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 08 March 2002 12:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [scottish] Them were the days (was Re: best way to learn more) On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 10:37:29AM +0000 or thereabouts, Graeme Mathieson wrote: > My first real taste of the Internet was a BBS in Grangemouth (who's name > I can't remember ... it began with an 'A' too I think) which offered a > month's free Internet access when they first setup the gateway. Though > I didn't realise it at the time, it was just a Unix shell prompt with > access to gopher, FTP, lynx, a newsreader and a mailreader. Hehe - I used to work for them (which was pretty much responsible for me getting heavily into linux). -- Mike Quin, Unix Sysadmin, Information Services, University of Stirling Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice: +44-1786-467273 Fax: +44-1786-466882 Post: 2B24, Cottrell Building, University of Stirling, STIRLING FK9 4LA -------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.lug.org.uk http://www.linuxportal.co.uk http://www.linuxjob.co.uk http://www.linuxshop.co.uk --------------------------------------------------------------------
