On 10/24/24 13:00, Donald Whittemore via cctalk wrote: > Had a contracting job in Italy late 1989. Introduced the client to > CompuServe. I was part of Team Toshiba at the time. We used the local dial up > number but had problems. Somewhere along the line it was discovered we could > somehow connect directly to the packet network. We started doing that. We > stopped when the first bill arrived. It was 5 digits USD. 😊
How about Tymshare/Tymnet/SBC....etc. Did Call Computer in Mountain View employ a file transfer protocol for use by subscribers? --Chuck