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From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: tuhs@tuhs.org, dave@horsfall.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] VFS prior to 1984
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2020 05:13:32 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202006261113.05QBDW2W017518@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2006261829180.46505@aneurin.horsfall.org>

Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:

> "talk"...  Well, at least it was a *bit* better than "write" :-)
>
> "mesg n" was your friend.

Unless you actually wanted to talk to the person on the other end.

Having it over the Internet was cool. In 1989 when my wife and I
were dating, we lived in different cities, and would occasionally
use talk to chat with each other in real time, w/o the expense of
a phone call.  It was fun. :-)

Arnold

  reply	other threads:[~2020-06-26 11:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-25 20:25 Noel Chiappa
2020-06-26  5:49 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2020-06-26  8:34   ` Dave Horsfall
2020-06-26 11:13     ` arnold [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-06-29  9:11 Paul Ruizendaal
2020-06-29 14:45 ` Larry McVoy
2020-06-29 14:53   ` Paul Ruizendaal
2020-06-29 15:14     ` Larry McVoy
2020-06-29 16:34 ` Heinz Lycklama
2020-06-25 20:23 Noel Chiappa
2020-06-25 19:31 Noel Chiappa
2020-06-24 18:31 Norman Wilson
2020-06-25  6:22 ` arnold
2020-06-24 17:51 Noel Chiappa
2020-06-24 18:13 ` Richard Salz
2020-06-24 18:46   ` Lars Brinkhoff
2020-06-24 14:31 Noel Chiappa
2020-06-24 15:21 ` Clem Cole
2020-06-23 22:17 Norman Wilson
2020-06-23 22:24 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-06-24  4:09   ` Warner Losh
2020-06-24  5:10     ` Dave Horsfall
2020-06-24  5:33       ` Bakul Shah
2020-06-24  9:10         ` Andrew Warkentin
2020-06-23  9:09 Paul Ruizendaal
2020-06-23 14:01 ` Larry McVoy
2020-06-23 15:12   ` Clem Cole
2020-06-23 15:55     ` Rich Morin
2020-06-23 20:38     ` Rob Pike
2020-06-23 20:57       ` Larry McVoy
2020-06-24  5:14       ` arnold
2020-06-24 21:08         ` Dave Horsfall
2020-06-24 19:30       ` Clem Cole
2020-06-24 19:36     ` Larry McVoy
2020-06-25  6:52       ` Rob Gingell
2020-07-05  0:05       ` Dave Horsfall
2020-07-05  0:16         ` Larry McVoy
2020-07-06  4:42           ` Dave Horsfall
2020-07-06 16:51           ` Chris Torek
2020-07-07  1:07             ` Bakul Shah
2020-07-05  1:43         ` Clem Cole
2020-07-05 14:43           ` Larry McVoy
2020-07-05 18:40             ` Arthur Krewat
2020-07-05 20:08             ` Clem Cole
2020-07-05 20:42               ` John Cowan
2020-07-05 21:04                 ` Clem Cole
2020-07-05 21:14                   ` Dan Cross
2020-06-24 16:51 ` Anthony Martin
2020-06-24 17:31   ` Anthony Martin
2020-06-24 18:31   ` Paul Ruizendaal
2020-06-25  0:56     ` Rob Gingell via TUHS
2020-06-24 19:05   ` Paul Ruizendaal
2020-06-24 20:27 ` Derek Fawcus
2020-06-24 21:33 ` Greg A. Woods
2020-06-25  0:45   ` Adam Thornton
2020-06-25 19:40     ` Greg A. Woods

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