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   From: stealthman@iglou.com   
      
   On Sun, 4 Sep 2011 16:05:59 -0700 (PDT), "miso@sushi.com"   
    wrote:   
      
   [snip]   
   >The usenet reader in the pre-WWW days were very crude. Even mail was   
   >primitive to the point where you had to specify the entire path to   
   >send a message, and messages were strictly ascii. You used uuendcode   
   >and decode to send binaries.   
      
          I used dial-up into a unix shell and accessed tin   
   newsreader on the ISP machine until about 10 years   
   ago.   
         I used a terminal program that I got someplace   
   in about 1987, written by Phil Burns, it came with   
   the source code in Turbo Pascal.   
         I found parts of the interface to be too slow   
   and cumbersome, and since I was using Turbo   
   Pascal that I got the first copy of on a "Dot"   
   portable PC with built-in CRT and thermal printer,   
   I rewrote parts of the terminal program and   
   compiled it to a .com file.   
         I used that all the years on Fidonet, Powernet,   
   and I was assistant sysop of the AustiNet bulletin   
   board system while the sysop was away in the   
   reserves, to get the machine rebooted I had to   
   call his wife.   
      
         The terminal program was great, but it needed   
   ANSI.SYS installed, and the menu on the tin   
   unix machine needed ANSI.   
      
         I am sad to say my ISP has jobbed out it's   
   Usenet server, so my terminal program and   
   dialup will not work any more,  but that's ok,   
   I can't afford a land line telephone anyway.   
      
   Ken   
      
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