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

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 06:43:08PM -0500, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>>>>> Does anyone remember their bang-path?
>>>> uunet!gsm001
>>> Bang path from where, though...?
>> It didn't matter if your system was properly set up in the maps.
> 
> The common ones I remember people giving came from ucbvax (or ucbarpa), 
> uunet or decvax.

There were literally thousands of systems you could use if you could
make a deal to get configured with them, or at least someone close by.

That's what I did: waggen was a machine that ODU configured a route to,
so the owner of that machine hooked my machine up.  That gave me a
relatively short bang path.

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...



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