-={ lundi, avril 06 2015, 22:36:49 -0700 }=-

Hey Alan!

 AI> I was hooked years ago with my first "Connect/2400..." I've been
 AI> suffering ever since.. :)

I grew up with VAX/VMS so I never did get suckered in or at least it never got
too serious.  In fact my first exposure to BBSing was with rlogin and telnet
before I ran into the more 'mainstream' terminal apps that became the norm in
the heyday of BBSing in the early to mid 1990's.  In fact I think I may have
seen early html apps before the more DOS-think terminal apps ... and none of
them used so-called "high ascii".  Offhand I am not sure exactly when I heard
the term "high ascii" used but I am positive it was from someone who only was
exposed to DOS usually via IBM or at least back then.

These days I run into more iso-8859-1 boxes then cp437 ones.

Life is good,
Maurice

... Don't cry for me I have vi.
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