howard@cyb-eng.UUCP (Howard Johnson) (11/29/84)
() > Simtel-20 is a TOPS-20 system on the ARPAnet. If you are on USENET, but not > ARPAnet, you can't access the CP/M archives there. (From Arpanet, they > accept FTP anonymous logins, but most APRAnauts probably know this) Does this mean that the ONLY way to access SIMTEL-20 is via the ARPAnet? -- Howard Johnson Cyb Systems, Austin, TX ..!{gatech,harvard,ihnp4,nbires,noao,seismo}!ut-sally!cyb-eng!howard
Kim Korner <CS.KORNER@UTEXAS-20.ARPA> (11/29/84)
Arpanet access is not the only way to get to SIMTEL-20. One can obtain normal access by working at White Sands Missle Range and using their hardwired lines. Or one can request a guest account and hope they have dialup lines that you can call long distance. What I'm trying to put across is that the answer to your question is a theoretical yes and a practical no. White Sands (Simtel-20) is a government computer willing to dispense information to authorized users of a government network (the ARPANET). -KM< -------