Dialing in to Athena

[dmaze]

Remember back when we were freshmen? And there wasn't good network even in all of W20 yet, and so in places like the APO office there was a VT320 with a modem? The Athena dialup pool still exists. And it's great for a good hit of network, zephyr, and livejournal if you just happen to have a VT320 and a modem and phone service, but (still!) no real network.

Comments

[bookwyrm]

I was using the pasta pads for a while since I couldn't get my roomie to spring for even dialup. They're handy.

[dmaze]

Last I heard, there was only one CPT machine left. The last time I
dialed in, I got lasagne. (BWIWAF, the athena.dialup.mit.edu machines
were named after sauces. And express.dialup was noticably less loaded
and so almost usable.)