[geeks] nerd reading for a Friday night ... old-skool waxed

[Bill Bradford]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 11:45:27AM -0500, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> Unfortunately, I had to pay 21 cents/minute (roughly) to transfer UUCP
> packets, even though ODU was only about 15 miles away.  Stupid POTS zones...

WHen I attended USAO (.edu) in '93-95, the only modem dialup lines to the
VAX were for "IT staff use only".  So, I found a dialup terminal server
at OU (in Norman, OK - about 40 miles away) that was a "local" call, would
call up into that terminal server, then telnet (hah, someone left it open)
to the VAX that was about 100 yards from where I was sitting.

After the first couple times I did this, I got called into the director of
IT's office (I was a workstudy/lab assistant).  "We saw you logged into the
VAX after the labs were closed..."  I explained what I'd done, and they 
started using it themselves when all two dialup lines were full. 8-)

Bill

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Bill Bradford 
Houston, Texas