Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Adrian Caspersz Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Pegasus Mail 4.7.3 released Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 18:48:00 +0100 Organization: Keep Usenet Newsgroups Alive!! Lines: 43 Message-ID: References: <20180611142701.2024f2aa.rsw@therandymon.com> <20180611175437.b97b223f.rsw@therandymon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 7bYNiKmQT9tUBq8zgsLqwwp/cJZKLCSRweVQ2kQK5Zvwy4n2SR Cancel-Lock: sha1:wthJIhWju9VX9raYc6HOf3BWwSc= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-GB Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:16088 On 12/06/18 10:11, Huge wrote: > On 2018-06-11, RS Wood wrote: >> On 11 Jun 2018 18:38:16 GMT >> Huge wrote: >> >>>> I see they still advertise a version for freaking DOS. Wow, that's >>>> impressive. Internet access from a DOS machine is truly an interesting >>>> endeavor - not for the slight of heart, I'm sure. >>> >>> It's how I started. >>> >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KA9Q >> >> Hell, it's probably how a lot of us started. Interestingly, I hadn't >> heard of KA9Q before - thought Trumpet Winsock was the only option. > > KA9Q runs under *DOS*. > >> Looks like you use it for a SLIP connection. How would that work: >> serial line to your 300 baud acoustic coupler modem and a SLIP >> connection agreement to your university (since that would predate ISPs)? > > If you'd read the link, you'd see that there was a UK ISP in the very > early days that recommended KA9Q as its connection software. IIRC, it > worked very well. > Yup, I got my first copy of KA9Q on a 3.5" floppy disc attached to the front of a UK "What Net" magazine, with articles in that written mostly by a friend of mine. Got me started on Demon, reading newsgroups, and trawling around FTP sites. 14.4kbps modem was, well - I didn't know faster. Lots of that for me now long forgotten, but yup was all text mode DOS stuff. Someone should do a retro youtube vid on KA9Q/DOS internet, it would be more entertaining than the "kids react to the wheel" genre that is overdone out there. -- Adrian C