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tymshare had a unit called tymnet that had their own backbone and lots of local dial-up numbers ... i believe not only in the US but also europe. besides tymnet being interface to access tymshare time-sharing services ... they also sold the service to other organizations that provided online services ... possibly early genesis of todays local-access number services (for instance, periodic looking at hostnames for various dialup IP addresses ... i see stuff like Level3 as part of the dialup hostname ... even tho Level3 obviously isn't the customers ISP).
when m-d bought Tymshare ... Tymnet was eventually spun off to BT (the Tymnet bldg. on 1st st. got a BT logo).
random old service bureau time-sharing posts
tymshare started providing the vmshare online computer conferencing in the '70s to the ibm user group organization, share
In some cases, the amount of disk space has been more than just "a little", proportionally. But I do agree...
and lots of people used local tymnet numbers as their access.
Dr. Richard E. Hawkins) writes: Do freestanding debuggers even exist anymore? My ancient Lattice MS-DOS compiler will, at the drop of a command-line switch, add a...
vmshare archive
in the early 80s, i sent up a process with tymshare (& share.org) where i got regular shadow copy of all the vmshare files and put them up on the HONE system as well as a number of other internal sites.
HONE was the internal online infrastructure that supported all the sales, marketing and field people world-wide. misc. past HONE posts:
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