GEnie (was Re: [geeks] dumbass recruiters... (take 3?))

[Peter L. Wargo]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Jonathan Katz wrote:

> > (Anybody even remember GEnie?  I was a sysop on the Unix RT...)
> 
> Cool! Yeah, I do. I'd connect through it from a publically accessable
> X.25 gateway in Indy (care of iupui.edu as well as screwey CompuServe
> dialups.) It was really weird, though... what OS did the rest of it
> run? If I sent enough control/break type characters I'd get to a 
> prompt which read:
  [...]

Actually, i have no idea, all the sysops for the various roundtables just
had menus to do all the work, I always wondered what was on the back
end...   I do think Honeywell was involved somehow..

-P