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|    Lawrence D'Oliveiro to All    |
|    Re: Bye-Bye Dialup USA    |
|    11 Aug 25 00:52:48    |
      From: ldo@nz.invalid              On Sun, 10 Aug 2025 11:36:37 +0100, mm0fmf wrote:              > AOL CDs, memories! I remember having a contest with some work colleagues       > as to who could collect 100 AOL CDs the quickest. I didn't win and then       > had well over 70 to recycle.              Further to that, 34 years ago puts their start in 1991, before CD-ROM       drives became popular in PCs. I think they were giving out floppy disks       for those first few years.              Anybody remember seeing an AOL floppy?              > I mistakenly though AOL were the biggest single user of PDP-10 computers       > but that was CompuServe who had about 200 according to Wikipedia.              I have heard about the CompuServe PDP-10s from elsewhere, too: still in       use when DEC’s newer-generation VAX architecture was itself starting to       look old and hoary.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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