Re: Nostalgia

2020-02-18 Thread Rick Troth
want! So Neale, where can I get one? *:-)* BITNET was inherently more secure (than contemporary Internet) because the entry bar was too high for consumers. But economy of scale prevailed, so most of us got internet and eventually lost our BITNET. *:-(* In the early 1990s, Russ

Re: Nostalgia

2020-02-17 Thread Neale Ferguson
There's a chat facility with this incarnation as well. Also, kudos to the other players who put the pieces together that made it all possible including updates to VM/370 running on Hercules by Peter Coghlan to allow it and its ancient RSCS to participate. Neale Ferguson On 2/17/20, 09:55,

Re: Nostalgia

2020-02-17 Thread David Boyes
Let's also not forget Eric Thomas's other popular tool: CHAT (so that you didn't have to TELL RELAY AT message. I think of all those bits, only CHAT survives in the VM Workshop tapes. Still works after all these years. On 2/14/20, 6:35 PM, "Linux on 390 Port on behalf of Rob van der

Re: Nostalgia

2020-02-14 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Fri, 14 Feb 2020 at 23:50, Neale Ferguson wrote: > For those who remember BITNET, RELAY, and VMSHARE. Here’s a video showing > its resurrection. > > https://youtu.be/gsY_m8ufcs4 I recognize that web page at the start :-) Sir Rob the Plumber