The following text archive is the first teleconference by an international login (United States) to the SciTech BBS on December 16, 1994:

Jason F_redacted_ just joined this channel!

:Hello there welcome to Mount Royal College

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From Jason F_redacted_: Heya

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From Jason F_redacted_: Thanks for the switch 🙂

:Your Welcome, since you are the first person from the United States to join I thought you might be interested to see what we are about.

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From Jason F_redacted_: This in Canada?

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:Yes

:This BBS is designed for students and instructors as well as community

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From Jason F_redacted_: 🙂 I saw the address on Gcomm’s /beta2 forum. I’m a

Major BBS sysop. 🙂

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:Terrific, how’s the ICO going so far?

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From Jason F_redacted_: . I have ICO partially working Environmental BBS, isn’t it?

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:This was an environmental BBS but now is a Faculty wide BBS.

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From Jason F_redacted_: Well, Having some lockup problems, but I think they may be cause by the fact that we don’t have a non-dynamic SLIP yet….

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From Jason F_redacted_: May just forgo the SLIP and jump right to a 56k

:We are straight through, no in between stuff from VAX

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From Jason F_redacted_: Eh… VAX… Ick. 🙂

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:Well being a College we have main frame and micro mentalities – I prefer micro!

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From Jason F_redacted_: I reduced it, but it’s giving me a lot of Btrieve

errors… I’ve even got Bob Stein stumped… 🙂

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From Jason F_redacted_: Has something to do with not being able to write to a

file, but I have the file handles just about maxed

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:Are you coming in on ethernet?

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From Jason F_redacted_: We have a VM system at my college… Penn State

University

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:Do you have straight through service or is there some other computer system shovelling info

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From Jason F_redacted_: Hmmm… I’m on a SLIP connection via a Modem from my

computer, so I’d hafta say no to that…

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:Hmmm, we haven’t had any problems yet via modem & ethernet, but I found that going through a VAX (local telnet) doen’t permit us uploads.

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From Jason F_redacted_: I believe it goes to a UNIX system which then connects to the Internet. When they go down, so do we…

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From Jason F_redacted_: been quite stable for a while now…

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From Jason F_redacted_: Well, if we can get the 56k line, we would be in much

better shape…. not to mention faster… currently, however, we

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From Jason F_redacted_: are fighting with the phone company about the

connection… they wanna charge $60 bucks more a month for a permanent

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From Jason F_redacted_: IP address when I could apply to internet and get one for free… (They sent me back to the phone company, but I got them after)

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From Jason F_redacted_: after the phone company now… hehehe..)

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From Jason F_redacted_: *laugh* yeah, lag is the big killer on the net… but

hey, what can you do? 🙂 I’m thinking of changing to CSLIP

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:Well good luck.. If you have any ideas on how we can do better don’t hesitate

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From Jason F_redacted_: Oh, it’s just a regular BBS business… pay for play type

deal…

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From Jason F_redacted_: 3 Gig of files, a ton of forums, tons of games, and

INTERNET! 🙂

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:Sound great, let me know when you get the ICO up

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From Jason F_redacted_: 6 lines now, although we have too many users on at once, so we’re gonna expand very soon

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From Jason F_redacted_: no prob…

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:Great, 28.8 or 14.4?

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From Jason F_redacted_: It’s up now… I’m on via that, but we have no telnet

address or anything yet… (phone companys fault)

:Well when you get the ICO going I think you will enjoy the flex

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From Jason F_redacted_: 14.4k now, but we’re gonna go to 28.8k

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:Is 28.8K a standard now in the U.S.?

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From Jason F_redacted_: *nod* Can’t wait till we can get incoming telnet… and

get the WWW up…

:Haven’t tried WWW on our end but expect good results although Telnet seems best

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From Jason F_redacted_: not really… although it’s catching on fast… only the

major boards have it, excluding stuff like AOL and prodigy…

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From Jason F_redacted_: AOL and Prodigy are still running at 2400 and 9600…

!!!!! (SLOOOOOOW!)

:Grass roots BBS still the best!!!!!!!!!

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From Jason F_redacted_: you have the web up, right?

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:Still working on fine tuning Web, but I have opened it up for now

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From Jason F_redacted_: I’ll try it in a few minutes… I’m downloading netscape

right now

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From Jason F_redacted_: Grass Roots?

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From Jason F_redacted_: never heard of it

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From Jason F_redacted_: 🙂

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:Well goto go its 1:30 a.m. here in Calgary, Alberta

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From Jason F_redacted_: I’ll check the WWW in about 2 minutes.. prolly sonner

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From Jason F_redacted_: sooner even

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From Jason F_redacted_: heh… 3:30 am here

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From Jason F_redacted_: 🙂

::) Thanks for the chat, Let me know how it goes, see ya on GCOMM

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From Jason F_redacted_: gonna check WWW right now/// hang a sec…

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:OK I hang for a sec!

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From Jason F_redacted_: yikes… 7 images? Wow!

:images of??? what?

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From Jason F_redacted_: oh hehe… oops… wrong WWW page…

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From Jason F_redacted_: Heh… do you have any other pages besides the standard

Gcomm page?

:Not yet haven’t been real interested yet in WWW stuff, still dabbling with telnet

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From Jason F_redacted_: All I have now is a thank you from gcomm for using ICO 🙂

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:Well I’ll have to start working on that tomorrow, still skeptical that ICO will run perfectly.

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From Jason F_redacted_: Kewl… WWW is the future, though.. much as I despise

it, but hey.. well, it works, though! 🙂

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From Jason F_redacted_: I’ll let ya get some sleep… I need some too! 🙂

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:Thanks very much, Cheers!

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From Jason F_redacted_: wave

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Jason F_redacted_ just exited the teleconference.

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