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Re: [Link Posting] How I Couldn't Stop Poking at Mysterious CompuServe Server Hard Disk Images

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From RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
Subject Re: [Link Posting] How I Couldn't Stop Poking at Mysterious CompuServe Server Hard Disk Images
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On 2019-04-03, Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
> Scott Dorsey <kludge@panix.com> wrote:
>> In article <E+0g8AH++0m8xR0Ah6FYGTQo@dont-email.me>,
>> Rich  <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
>>>
>>><URL:https://medium.com/@mpnet/trying-to-make-sense-of-compuserve-server
>>>-hard-disk-images-posted-on-archive-org-b1c62ce6012b>
>> 
>> So, basically this guy found some disk images, started to figure out how
>> to read them and gave up before doing anything useful?
>
> Yeah, seems just as he started to make headway, he stopped (unless he's 
> saving more for another blog posting, which is sadly a far too common 
> result).

I got the idea he went as far as he was able to go with his own
technical ability/time/energy and then made it available for others to
continue where he left off. 

> But I also now better understand why the Compuserve pricing model was 
> set the way it was.  They were coming from, and accustomed to, 
> computing systems where every little thing one did was billed by the 
> second to some account, so having an awful high per-minute rate for 
> nearly anything done on Compuserve was likely seen by them as "just the 
> normal way of doing things".

Wasn't it said somewhere that Compuserve IDs (numerical) were somehow
related to PDP login requirements?

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[Link Posting] How I Couldn't Stop Poking at Mysterious CompuServe Server Hard Disk Images Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-04-02 17:29 +0000
  Re: [Link Posting] How I Couldn't Stop Poking at Mysterious CompuServe Server Hard Disk Images RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-04-02 21:01 -0400
    Re: [Link Posting] How I Couldn't Stop Poking at Mysterious CompuServe Server Hard Disk Images Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2019-04-03 12:18 +0000
      Re: [Link Posting] How I Couldn't Stop Poking at Mysterious CompuServe Server Hard Disk Images ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2019-04-03 23:55 -0500
  Re: [Link Posting] How I Couldn't Stop Poking at Mysterious CompuServe Server Hard Disk Images kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-04-03 11:00 -0400
    Re: [Link Posting] How I Couldn't Stop Poking at Mysterious CompuServe Server Hard Disk Images Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-04-03 19:23 +0000
      Re: [Link Posting] How I Couldn't Stop Poking at Mysterious CompuServe Server Hard Disk Images kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-04-03 16:31 -0400
      Re: [Link Posting] How I Couldn't Stop Poking at Mysterious CompuServe Server Hard Disk Images RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-04-03 22:36 -0400
        Re: [Link Posting] How I Couldn't Stop Poking at Mysterious CompuServe Server Hard Disk Images Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2019-04-04 07:56 +0000
          Re: [Link Posting] How I Couldn't Stop Poking at Mysterious CompuServe Server Hard Disk Images Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2019-04-04 12:52 +0000
            Re: [Link Posting] How I Couldn't Stop Poking at Mysterious CompuServe Server Hard Disk Images Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2019-04-04 13:02 +0000
        Re: [Link Posting] How I Couldn't Stop Poking at Mysterious CompuServe Server Hard Disk Images kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-04-04 09:20 -0400

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