Subj : Re: Planet connect
To : Mark Lewis
From : Dale Shipp
Date : Mon Feb 18 2019 12:23 am
-=> On 02-17-19 15:55, Mark Lewis <=-
-=> spoke to Dale Shipp about Planet connect <=-
DS> Refresh my memory -- when did PC come into being?
ML> 1992 or 1993... PageSAT was the other company also offering fidonet
ML> via satellite feed...
Not sure, but that may have been before my time. I just checked my
netmail folders. I believe I have kept every netmail in or out since
even before I was given a node number. Earliest is spring 1996.
ML> i responded "not if i'm paying the phone bill." :)
ML> besides, it was cheaper for out-of-state long distance than
ML> it was for in-state long distance... i was given a free
I do not believe that I ever used phone to pick up my mail. I was using
internet and SIO in OS/2 to connect to Jerry Gauss in South Carolina as
a point. I did use phone to connect with local BBSes.
Dale Shipp
fido_261_1466 (at) verizon (dot) net
(1:261/1466)
... Shipwrecked on Hesperus in Columbia, Maryland. 00:38:07, 18 Feb 2019
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