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Re: Pegasus Mail 4.7.3 released

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On 12/06/18 10:11, Huge wrote:
> On 2018-06-11, RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> wrote:
>> On 11 Jun 2018 18:38:16 GMT
>> Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> 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

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Pegasus Mail 4.7.3 released Shadow <Sh@dow.br> - 2018-06-11 12:40 -0300
  Re: Pegasus Mail 4.7.3 released RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2018-06-11 14:27 -0400
    Re: Pegasus Mail 4.7.3 released Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2018-06-11 18:38 +0000
      Re: Pegasus Mail 4.7.3 released RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2018-06-11 17:54 -0400
        Re: Pegasus Mail 4.7.3 released Bob Eager <news0007@eager.cx> - 2018-06-11 23:40 +0000
        Re: Pegasus Mail 4.7.3 released Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2018-06-12 09:11 +0000
          Re: Pegasus Mail 4.7.3 released Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2018-06-12 18:48 +0100
    Re: Pegasus Mail 4.7.3 released Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2018-06-12 11:22 +0300
    Re: Pegasus Mail 4.7.3 released not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2018-06-12 23:12 +0000

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