[Coco] Ebay chuckle of the day

Sean badfrog at gmail.com
Mon Oct 11 19:57:10 EDT 2010


That's correct, Delphi allowed terminal access to stuff like Telnet,
Gopher, and maybe even Usenet, I was doing this in '92-'93 with my
Coco 3.
Though I did have a 2400bps modem by that point.


On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Little John <sales at gimechip.com> wrote:
> Actually, these very likely could have been used to access the internet via
> services such as Delphi... It would have been painfully slow, but still... I
> used a modem with a CoCo 3 to access the internet via Delphi sometime in the
> 1990's (unless I am remembering wrong... which I could be..)
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Theodore (Alex) Evans"
> <alxevans at concentric.net>
> To: <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 5:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Ebay chuckle of the day
>
>
>> Funny though I personally would date the internet starting with ARPAnet so
>> this doesn't actually predate the internet though it likely has never been
>> used to connect to the internet (my old DCM however was used for that
>> purpose).  The other funny thing for me is that I just move to San Angelo,
>> TX, so it is somewhere nearby.
>>
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