On 21/09/2018 08.00, James Knott wrote:
On 09/21/2018 06:52 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
So, back in those days, email generally meant people using terminals to a shared Unix system, with smtp transfering mail between systems. Hey, whoah! Don't assume Unix. I was doing it on VAX-VMS in 1985. There was a lot more OS diversity back then.
Notice I said generally. As I mentioned in another message, I first used email on a VAX 11/780. However, I have no idea if it used smtp or whatever. My emails were only with co-workers and never left the VAX. Later on, I got an account on the Telenet system and also Microsoft mail. I don't know that either of them used smtp/pop for email. This was late 80s, early 90s.
You were lucky. To have email at that year I would need to justify the need for it at the university or somewhere. Only during the 90's I got a shared phone and a modem: thus Fidonet. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from openSUSE 15.0 (Legolas))