waire@seas.gwu.edu (Timothy A. Waire Jr.) (02/19/91)
The other night I was calling around to various bulletin boards around the U.S. and upon completing one of the validation scripts I was asked what method I was using to call in. The choices given were the following: 1. Local Call 2. Standard Long Distance 3. PC Pursuit I, of course, responded with option 2. After doing so, I got some messages describing what PC Pursuit was. It seems to be some sort of service provided to PC modem users. The message indicated that for the low cost of $25/month one could make unlimited long distance calls from PC to PC in the continental U.S. That's about all it said. Has anyone heard of such a service??? Sounds to good to be true. Please help! If there is sufficient interest I will summarize my findings to the net. -- Timothy A. Waire, Jr. (Whitegold) Executive Office of the President INTERNET: waire@seas.gwu.edu Office of Management & Budget The George Washington University Wash., D.C. 20503 Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Voice: 2023954922 Fax: 2023953910
bskendig@shine.Princeton.EDU (Brian Kendig) (02/19/91)
In article <2752@sparko.gwu.edu> waire@seas.gwu.edu (Timothy A. Waire Jr.) writes: >... After doing so, I got some messages >describing what PC Pursuit was. It seems to be some sort of service provided >to PC modem users. The message indicated that for the low cost of $25/month >one could make unlimited long distance calls from PC to PC in the continental >U.S. > >That's about all it said. Has anyone heard of such a service??? Sounds to >good to be true. Geez, I haven't seen mention of PC Pursuit for years! ;) Anyway, to provide a little more information on it: I _believe_ that Pc Pursuit is also known as `Telenet' (note the `e'; it's not `telnet'). I seem to recall that, for a $25 startup fee plus $25 per month, you were given access to their system. Here's how it worked: You would call a local number, and log in to a Telenet node nearby. Then you would tell that node to connect to any other node anywhere on the continent, and tell the remote node to then make a local call. Two local calls are cheap; you'd be going most of the way through the Telenet cross-country cabling. I don't know what restrictions or caveats apply, or indeed if this information is correct at all! Caveat lector. << Brian >> | Brian S. Kendig \ Macintosh | Engineering, | bskendig | | Computer Engineering |\ Thought | USS Enterprise | @phoenix.Princeton.EDU | Princeton University |_\ Police | -= NCC-1701-D =- | @PUCC.BITNET | "It's not that I don't have the work to *do* -- I don't do the work I *have*."
starta@tosh.UUCP (John Starta) (02/21/91)
waire@seas.gwu.edu (Timothy A. Waire Jr.) writes: > [...] > I, of course, responded with option 2. After doing so, I got some messages > describing what PC Pursuit was. It seems to be some sort of service provided > to PC modem users. The message indicated that for the low cost of $25/month > one could make unlimited long distance calls from PC to PC in the continental > U.S. > [...] The information you were given is no longer current. PC Pursuit's pricing structure has changed to 30 hrs for $30 dollars and then $2.50 an hour (non-primetime) thereafter. If you're interested, I would recommend calling them at +1 800 TELENET. They'll answer all your questions for you. John -- John A. Starta Internet: tosh!starta@asuvax.eas.asu.edu Software Visionary UUCP: ncar!noao!asuvax!tosh!starta AOL: AFA John; CompuServe: 71520,3556