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From: Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx>
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Subject: Re: [Link Posting] How I Couldn't Stop Poking at Mysterious CompuServe Server Hard Disk Images
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On Thu, 04 Apr 2019 12:52:38 +0000, Roger Blake wrote:

> On 2019-04-04, Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> wrote:
>> My ID was longer than I have ever seen on any PDP system.
> 
> Some info on TOPS-10 and Compuserve user IDs:
> 
>   https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/5086/what-was-the-
technical-reason-behind-the-octal-digits-used-for-compuserve-user-i

Yes, I was aware of that. Mine was a later one, so came in the 
1xxxxxx,xxxx era.



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