On Tue, 28 Dec 2021, Brad Kuhl via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Speaking of running up phone bills, does anyone remember PC Pursuit? I used to use that to get around long distance and dial around the country. Worked good in the 300/1200 baud days, but fell down as speeds went up.
Brad Kuhl -BradEK@GMail.com -Brad@Kuhls.us
I was a big PC Pursuit user in the mid and late '80s. After I moved from Tacoma to Gaithersburg, my fellow sysop on our Micro Magic BBS in Sumner set up a cron job on the Tandy 6000 to call my modem in MD through PCP, so I could log in. Eventually, his BBS number exchange was added to the PCP dialout range. I also discovered a bug in PCP, where typing a LF instead of a CRLF resulted in the next person dialing your exchange would be connected to your system instead of the BBS they were trying to dial. I had a few conversations with distant users doing this, before PCP fixed the bug. :-) Mike Loewen mloewen@cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/