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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   
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