Private pilot license

Jay Honeck schrieb:


Um, hmmm. Just dawned on me that perhaps they didn't exist? Hey, folks, was Usenet here (as we know it now) in '94? I jumped in around '98-ish.

It was there and alive long before that.
And it did have a very, very lively pilot group.

It may be of interest to you that on Compuserve (something like AOL way
back in the 80ies and 90ies; was bought by AOL) the very very first
chatroom was one installed by pilots for pilots.... but that was a
while ago...

"dimsch" wrote

It was there and alive long before that.
And it did have a very, very lively pilot group.

How does one go about researching their own posting records? I really don't
remember when I started, and would like to find out.
--
Jim in NC

("Morgans" wrote)
How does one go about researching their own posting records? I really
don't remember when I started, and would like to find out.


One option:

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.aviation.piloting/about?hl=en
Google/Groups/Rec/Aviation/Piloting/About group/Pick a year


Montblack

It may be of interest to you that on Compuserve (something like AOL way
back in the 80ies and 90ies; was bought by AOL) the very very first
chatroom was one installed by pilots for pilots.... but that was a
while ago...

Compuserve! Now *there* is a blast from the past.

Remember "Prodigy"? Owned by Sears, Roebuck, of all people! That was my
first venture into the on-line world...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:wsbHf.759917$x96.396114@attbi_s72...
Compuserve! Now *there* is a blast from the past.

Remember "Prodigy"? Owned by Sears, Roebuck, of all people! That was my
first venture into the on-line world...

IIRC, there was another competitor of Prodigy and CompuServe around then but
can't think of its name. It used Gopher searches. Also, BBS's were big back
then and some of them would sync their messages together nightly using Fido
net. Most would run on 1,200 bps, some were only 300 but the 'good' ones
supported 2,400. Most could only have one person dial in at a time.

- I miss my 300bps dial-up modem. (yeah, right...)

("Greg B" wrote)
IIRC, there was another competitor of Prodigy and CompuServe around then
but can't think of its name. It used Gopher searches. Also, BBS's were big
back then and some of them would sync their messages together nightly
using Fido net. Most would run on 1,200 bps, some were only 300 but the
'good' ones supported 2,400. Most could only have one person dial in at a
time.


Delphi?

http://www.walthowe.com/navnet/history.html
Any help?


Montblack

"Montblack" wrote in message
...
Delphi?

http://www.walthowe.com/navnet/history.html
Any help?

It must have been CompuServe that I had access to way back then. I wonder if
my account there still works. ;-)

What was this post originally about??? Oh yeah, someone asking something
about a PPL. If you have the desire, money and time then go for it.

My first computer and modem cost me about $1,800. It had no
hard drive, a 720 KB floppy and 1.2 MB of RAM and a 4.7 MHz
16 bit processor. The modem was a WorldPort external on the
serial port at 2400 bps but it did have compression and
could get 4800 bits. It was DOS only but WORKS 2.0 ran on
it.


"Greg B" wrote in message
...
| "Jay Honeck" wrote in message
| news:wsbHf.759917$x96.396114@attbi_s72...
| Compuserve! Now *there* is a blast from the past.
|
| Remember "Prodigy"? Owned by Sears, Roebuck, of all
people! That was my
| first venture into the on-line world...
|
| IIRC, there was another competitor of Prodigy and
CompuServe around then but
| can't think of its name. It used Gopher searches. Also,
BBS's were big back
| then and some of them would sync their messages together
nightly using Fido
| net. Most would run on 1,200 bps, some were only 300 but
the 'good' ones
| supported 2,400. Most could only have one person dial in
at a time.
|
| - I miss my 300bps dial-up modem. (yeah, right...)
|
|

That was a big time PC, first here was a TI-99 which I still have. Not even
a floppy but a cassette tape.

"Jim Macklin" wrote in message
news:thjHf.79692$QW2.38366@dukeread08...
My first computer and modem cost me about $1,800. It had no
hard drive, a 720 KB floppy and 1.2 MB of RAM and a 4.7 MHz
16 bit processor. The modem was a WorldPort external on the
serial port at 2400 bps but it did have compression and
could get 4800 bits. It was DOS only but WORKS 2.0 ran on
it.


"Greg B" wrote in message
...
| "Jay Honeck" wrote in message
| news:wsbHf.759917$x96.396114@attbi_s72...
| Compuserve! Now *there* is a blast from the past.
|
| Remember "Prodigy"? Owned by Sears, Roebuck, of all
people! That was my
| first venture into the on-line world...
|
| IIRC, there was another competitor of Prodigy and
CompuServe around then but
| can't think of its name. It used Gopher searches. Also,
BBS's were big back
| then and some of them would sync their messages together
nightly using Fido
| net. Most would run on 1,200 bps, some were only 300 but
the 'good' ones
| supported 2,400. Most could only have one person dial in
at a time.
|
| - I miss my 300bps dial-up modem. (yeah, right...)
|
|

I've got one of those too, with the speech synthesizer, I
should have said "my first PC was" [Toshiba T1000 laptop].
Remember the days when you'd got into Sears or K-Mart or
some mall and they'd have a TI99 or a Commodore on the
counter with people playing games? I would get to the
machine and enter a program that would ask for a null string
input, change the screen color for a running program and
start to count to 1,000, then print this on the screen,
"Sorry, I can't Do That" Then it would loop back and wait
for any other null input. Pressing any key started the loop
again. The only escape was to turn it off. Later I put
several steps in that would get more adamant that I Can't do
that. It was fun to stand a few feet away and watch the
people get angry with the machine. Then they'd call the
clerk and they knew nothing and it would take them several
escalating people before somebody would turn it off.

I haven't don't that in about 35-40 years, I guess it
wouldn't be as much fun today. I just get phone calls from
friends asking what some message on their computer means
when they can't tell me the exact wording. Then they tell
me they have been uninstalling programs, etc.


"Dave Stadt" wrote in message
. com...
|
| That was a big time PC, first here was a TI-99 which I
still have. Not even
| a floppy but a cassette tape.
|
| "Jim Macklin" wrote
in message
| news:thjHf.79692$QW2.38366@dukeread08...
| My first computer and modem cost me about $1,800. It
had no
| hard drive, a 720 KB floppy and 1.2 MB of RAM and a 4.7
MHz
| 16 bit processor. The modem was a WorldPort external on
the
| serial port at 2400 bps but it did have compression and
| could get 4800 bits. It was DOS only but WORKS 2.0 ran
on
| it.
|
|
| "Greg B" wrote in message
| ...
| | "Jay Honeck" wrote in
message
| | news:wsbHf.759917$x96.396114@attbi_s72...
| | Compuserve! Now *there* is a blast from the past.
| |
| | Remember "Prodigy"? Owned by Sears, Roebuck, of all
| people! That was my
| | first venture into the on-line world...
| |
| | IIRC, there was another competitor of Prodigy and
| CompuServe around then but
| | can't think of its name. It used Gopher searches.
Also,
| BBS's were big back
| | then and some of them would sync their messages
together
| nightly using Fido
| | net. Most would run on 1,200 bps, some were only 300
but
| the 'good' ones
| | supported 2,400. Most could only have one person dial
in
| at a time.
| |
| | - I miss my 300bps dial-up modem. (yeah, right...)
| |
| |
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