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I can still remember my CompuServe ID. I wonder why they had the curious pattern of xxxxx,xxx.

I miss Prodigy as well. Both excellent services in different ways.

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Compuserve ran on DEC PDP-10s. The login ID format on TOPS-10 was programmer#,project# (octal).

Very cool! Thank you.

My Compuserve username is permanently burned into my brain: 100131,756. And my password was the wonderfully evocative "spite:ambush".

Username, yes, 75006,702. But not the password. It was a decent password though. I didn't pick it.

Still have this info kicking around on my computer:

  COMPUSERVE:
  Modem: (800) FINDCIS  [host name = "phone"]
  Phone: (800) 848-8990  [tech support]
         (800) 848-8199  Sales (toll-free) 8am-10pm M-F
         (617) 457-0802  Sales (direct)
    BBS: (212) 608-6021  [local NYC access number]

As far as I know, the ID was reflective of the user ID format for the PDP-10's it ran on.

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