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Old 02-26-2016, 08:40 PM   #27314
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Yeah, it had the Y2K bug, which won't get fixed. But IIRC, you can reset the date/time after booting to the current one and it will behave.
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Yep, I did that. But by then the Amiga 3000 was my primary computer.


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The user agent was a Convergent creation called FACE. You could plug an ANSI terminal into it and get a usable mono character mode display similar to what you saw on the console. I thought it was one of the better UIs I'd seen.
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I did a lot of writing on it. I found the Alpha/graphic Windowing system very useful when I was at the keyboard, but I turned it off when I was on a terminal -- it took a long time to draw and re-draw. I did a lot of writing in the field on an Epson Geneva PX-8. Plugged it into an RS-232 and uploaded quickly when I was using the command line.
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