Telnet access to moderately old UNIX boxes

[Ian King]

Once upon a time, in a technology galaxy far, far away....

I wrote a business application suite in 'Business BASIC' (with database extensions) on a Nova clone, which we delivered to our remote customer.  As they worked with it and found issues or limitations, I did maintenance programming on an ADM-3A over a 300 baud modem.  I still remember the pain of watching the screen paint out the characters, so slowly it seemed I could watch them 'progressively' render across the 7x9 character cell.  Sooooo slooooooooooow......  

I'm sorry, the flashbacks still make me nod off -- Ian 
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From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of John Floren [slawmaster at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 11:13 PM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: Telnet access to moderately old UNIX boxes

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Tom Manos<tmanos at concursive.com> wrote:
> I am also considering completely blowing off net access for these boxes and
> just using dialup. I was thinking of buying one of those MagicJack thingies
> that give you a local number and unlimited voip calling for $20 a year and
> setting up a modem on it. The downside is that most folks don't have modems
> any more.
>
> Ideas? Am I just nuts for even considering something like this?
>

When I see the MagicJack commercials, I always think "Oh god, what a
scam". Looking online seems to confirm that, even leaving aside people
who say "I DIDN'T KNOW YOU NEEDED INTERNET FOR THIS", it's not a great
company to deal with and the service is not particularly good.

A UUCP net could be cool, though, same goes for running old systems
over dialup (I'm imagining dialing in with my VT220 or the ADM-3).

John
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