You beat me to it! I was going to make the same reference. So here's my contribution: In 1994 I was in Tanzania working at the main hospital in the country. To send email I think I used a simple text client and saved emails to a floppy disk. I would then take them over to the library where the guy who ran the mailserver would copy them to the server (a 386 running redhat). We would then wait for the Satelife satellite to pass overhead. We normally had a 10 minute connection window and he would have to adjust the dish to get the signal right. Then there would be an agonising wait as we slowly watched each email transfer. Then to get a reply I would come back the next day.
David On Tue, 7 Jul 2020 at 18:26, Fred Bone <fred.b...@dial.pipex.com> wrote: > > On 07 July 2020 at 12:09, David Carlson said: > > > Using a 300 baud modem, perhaps? I had a Radio Shack model 100 > > <yorkshiremen count=4> > Oooh, we used to *dream* of having 300 baud. We had to send our data one > bit at a time using Morse code tapped out on an old drainpipe. > </yorkshiremen> > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. -- David Whiting _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
