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Very interesting but the story in that post is dated 1988, long before Windows 95. I'm calling it a "post" because I'm not sure what it is: Email? Message? File? The header:

  File name:  compus.txt
  Date:  31-Aug-88 15:44 EDT
  From:  Sandy Trevor [70000,130]
  Subj:  PDP-10 History

  TO: Joe Dempster

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The date is repeated below, so that's not a typo. He then talks about how Compuserve has been using PDP-10s for the previous 17 years. Compuserve was around in 1971??

Edit: Holy shit, Compuserve was founded in 1969(!) as a subsidiary of an insurance company.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuServe

Right, but it ends just as CompuServe is making a major new purchase of PDP-10 gear.

The "70000,130" appears to be a CompuServe User ID, for what it's worth.

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