jfalcon Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 I recently rediscovered that Compuserve is still running their text based environment under Compuserve "Classic". Anyone know what the current connection charges are and all that stuff? I do know you can access it via the internet by telnet to telnet://gateway.compuserve.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 Neat! Now if only I had a Compuserve ID... Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfalcon Posted August 15, 2007 Author Share Posted August 15, 2007 What's neat is that the good old "GO PHONES" is still running. From the User ID: type 77770,101 It will barf out ?? LOGSTU - System temporarily unavailable Then just type "PHONES" without quotes at the next User ID: prompt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 What's neat is that the good old "GO PHONES" is still running. From the User ID: type 77770,101 It will barf out ?? LOGSTU - System temporarily unavailable Then just type "PHONES" without quotes at the next User ID: prompt. Interesting. I wish I knew more about Compuserve. Sadly I didn't really get online until the dawn of the Internet era (94-95ish). Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 Wow, man, that brings back memories. Amazing that it's still online!!! I also wish I still had an account I could play with.. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfalcon Posted August 15, 2007 Author Share Posted August 15, 2007 Wow, man, that brings back memories. Amazing that it's still online!!! I also wish I still had an account I could play with.. ..Al Yeah, I might call over here in a few to the Australia tech support line (via VoIP) and see if it's all the same. According to the Indian tech I called stateside, it's all still pretty much there but he didn't quote me info because their "classic" department was having phone issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ijor Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 Wow, man, that brings back memories. Amazing that it's still online!!! I also wish I still had an account I could play with.. I might still have those Compuserve/Bix/Genie offers that came with old modems. Wonder if they are still valid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mos6507 Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 That's mindblowing. In wonder about GEnie and Delphi?? I used both of those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfalcon Posted August 15, 2007 Author Share Posted August 15, 2007 That's mindblowing. In wonder about GEnie and Delphi?? I used both of those. Delphi I believe is still running. I'll have to look at some stuff I'm putting together about X.25. But Genie is long gone according to wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEnie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 Holy crap that is amazing that any of this stuff exists anymore! But still, I'll never again play Orb Wars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted August 15, 2007 Share Posted August 15, 2007 Wow, man, that brings back memories. Amazing that it's still online!!! I also wish I still had an account I could play with.. I might still have those Compuserve/Bix/Genie offers that came with old modems. Wonder if they are still valid I wish I had saved some of those. Would be amazing if they still worked.. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kisrael Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 Wow, man, that brings back memories. Amazing that it's still online!!! I also wish I still had an account I could play with.. I might still have those Compuserve/Bix/Genie offers that came with old modems. Wonder if they are still valid I wish I had saved some of those. Would be amazing if they still worked.. ..Al Heh. I missed out on Compuserve, but I (weirdly) read a thorough book on it, talking about all the CB Channels and all of that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prodos8 Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 Never used Compuserve, but did used to dial-up "The Source" on my TI-99/4a computer and download lots of goodies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+remowilliams Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 I wish I had saved some of those. Would be amazing if they still worked.. I've got to have at least a couple of those in all these retro game boxes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+kheller2 Posted August 17, 2007 Share Posted August 17, 2007 I wish I had saved some of those. Would be amazing if they still worked.. I've got to have at least a couple of those in all these retro game boxes. I think the XMM301 modem had them as well... Hmm.. going to dig that up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oesii Posted August 18, 2007 Share Posted August 18, 2007 I was on Compuserve in the mid '80s for only a little bit until I got hooked by local BBS's. I remember carefully metering my monthly minutes so the parents didn't complain too much Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
telengard Posted August 18, 2007 Share Posted August 18, 2007 That's mindblowing. In wonder about GEnie and Delphi?? I used both of those. Both great services, as well as Compuserve. I miss them. Gonna fire up telnet right now and try Compuserve. Ran up *huge* phone bills back in the 80s. ~telengard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BydoEmpire Posted August 18, 2007 Share Posted August 18, 2007 That IS amazing. I *think* I subscribed to Compuserve very briefly, I can't quite remember. I got my first modem for the Amiga 500 (1200 baud - it SCREAMED!), but I mostly did local BBS's. Never had a modem for my 8 bit computers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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