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)


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