WFW?  I seem to remember something else but Windows for Workgroup work for
sure.

Jon

On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Andrew S. Baker <asbz...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Who remembers the original TCP/IP stack you could install on a Windows 3.0
> system to get onto the Internet?  :)
>
> -ASB
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> On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Steven M. Caesare <scaes...@caesare.com>wrote:
>
>>  Ayup.
>>
>>
>>
>> About as badly as the original NetWare client for Win95 did…
>>
>>
>>
>> -sc
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* David Lum [mailto:david....@nwea.org]
>> *Sent:* Thursday, August 06, 2009 5:34 PM
>>
>> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
>> *Subject:* RE: AOL
>>
>>
>>
>> Yep sounds right. In my experience when I used to actually try to support
>> AOL clients I found its software seemed to bind with the NIC drivers (or the
>> TCP/IP stack, I forget which) in an unusual way. IIRC it made me think it
>> acted like a “special AOL loopback adapter that allows connect to
>> AOL/Internet” or something frustrating. Normal troubleshooting of the
>> network pieces only got me part way – uninstalling AOL would even sometimes
>> break the TCP/IP stack…
>>
>>
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* paul chinnery [mailto:pdw1...@hotmail.com]
>> *Sent:* Thursday, August 06, 2009 10:39 AM
>> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
>> *Subject:* RE: AOL
>>
>>
>>
>> I had to visit a doctor's  office (office would dial in remotely to the
>> hospital) because she said the link (url) to our RAS wasn't working. Got
>> there and she's running AOL (and she has broadband, too).  Every freakin'
>> time I tried to put a shortcut on her desktop to the RAS, AOL would change
>> it.
>> Finally, I told her I'd put it in her Favorites folder.
>>  ------------------------------
>>
>> From: david....@nwea.org
>> To: ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com
>> Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 10:07:53 -0700
>> Subject: RE: AOL
>>
>> When I get asked to work on a home user PC with AOL I let them know up
>> front **I DO NOT SUPPORT AOL** nor troubleshoot Internet browsing issues
>> other than being able to ping the gateway and 4.2.2.2 (my favorite public
>> DNS ‘cause it’s easy to remember).
>>
>>
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Angus Scott-Fleming [mailto:angu...@geoapps.com]
>> *Sent:* Thursday, August 06, 2009 12:11 AM
>> *To:* NT System Admin Issues
>> *Subject:* Re: AOL
>>
>>
>>
>> On 5 Aug 2009 at 22:49, Sean Houston  wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> > I remember Compuserve, Prodigy and AOL being the main 3 companies
>> around. I
>>
>> > can't say I was ever aware they were ever known as anything but AOHell.
>>
>>
>>
>> Fidonet all the way, baby .... I ran a BBS for many years.  I think I
>> still have the 386 it was running on when I finally shut it down.  WildCat
>> BBS from Mustang Software.  Those were the days.
>>
>>
>>
>> CIS 75500,3223, that was me.  However, 16 of the 17 hits of a Google
>> search for my old ID are messages on this list from 2008 ;-)
>>
>>
>>
>> http://www.google.com/search?q="75500%2C3223";
>>
>>
>>
>> I remember being excited when I had a "real" email address of
>> 75500.3...@compuserve.com ... I had some really neat software for reading
>> forums -- OzCIS -- and eventually OzCIS for Windows, which never really
>> measured up to the DOS program.
>>
>>
>>
>> Never had a Prodigy address.  I got an AOL address -- a couple of them,
>> actually -- this year so I could support home-clients with AOL issues, and
>> for IM purposes.  Never use them, though.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Angus Scott-Fleming
>>
>> GeoApps, Tucson, Arizona
>>
>> 1-520-895-3270
>>
>>
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