Subj : RE: Macintosh echo
To   : ED KOON
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Mon Mar 06 2017 07:05:30

  Re: RE: Macintosh echo
  By: ED KOON to KURT WEISKE on Fri Mar 03 2017 07:06 pm

EK> I got away with line camping on Microsoft network. Had a dual channel isdn
EK> connection for the bbs, msn allowed connectiong with a standard dial up
EK> acct. Got away with it for about 6 months until one day my act was
EK> suspended.. 

ISDN was great as someone else paid for it. I had an ISDN line at my home, a
Morotola BitSurfr Pro modem, and connected to work's Shiva LANRover for
internet connectivity. I'd dial up to work with the second B channel, keep the
first B channel open for BBS calls (inbound calls were free, outbound paid by
the minute.)

I started using Internet Rex to download echomail, and occasionally used the
second B channel to hunt when the first was busy, or bind them for one 112kbps
internet connection.

Inbound calls would get fast connections, since my end was all digital - I
remember seeing CONNECT 48000 and CONNECT 52600 messages from callers with
clean lines on their end.

Those were good times, but definitely the tail end of the dial-up BBS era for
me. When I left that company, I went to a single analog line then closed the
door on the dial-up era when I started consulting and needed the phone line for
fax and voice.
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