** john lewis <johnlewis@???> [2010-03-04 23:35]:
> On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 17:36:28 +0000
> Paul Tansom <paul@???> wrote:
>
> > I can't for the life of me think whether it was pre-SMTP being
> > de-facto, but I do remember the fun of setting up special addresses
> > on the IBM gateway at work to route internet addressed email into my
> > IBM Profs/Office Vision account. This was all doubly interesting when
> > combined with the requirement to do a similar process to get email
> > out of IBM through one gateway and then into Hampshire County Council
> > via their gateway. An interesting challenge in sending mails with
> > specially calculated addresses to get things set up and then using
> > another address to email through once it was, but it worked. Of
> > course this was all done so I could send email from my work to my mum
> > at work, as well as for the challenge of whether I could set it up ;)
> > That said, once I had it was used for legitimate work purposes, so it
> > was purely in the spirit of testing :)
>
> A problem I never did solve before I retired was how to get a
> dial-up modem on a PC in my office to talk to a dial-up modem in a PC
> in another town so we could transfer files between the two PCs. The
> software I was using (a WordPerfect product) was supposed to allow this
> but I couldn't get it to work and I eventually ran out of time.
** end quote [john lewis]
I used to dial into work over a modem to a bank of modems in the server room,
mainly to use Office Vision from memory, but you could also get internet access
- not a lot of use, except if you were allowed to use the dial back feature :)
The strangest bit of 'modem' work I did was using an ISDN modem to dial out (I
think it was through the internal telephone system onto an ISDN line, but I
can't remember for sure). This then made an international call to a Windows 98
PC in Holland that was running the company email system (some software called
MDaemon). It was a completely mad way of working, and a big change from
administering an RS6000 runing AIX and the Netscape Messaging Suite that I was
used to before the part of Xyratex I was working for got sold off to Teleplan.
Believe it or not this was as recent as 2000!!
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