Trumpet!

 

Altho I just used WfW.

 

-sc

 

From: Charles Whitby [mailto:charles.whi...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 11:45 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: AOL

 

LAN Workplace?

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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